On OS X and MacOS, Elixir can be installed via the common package managers:
Homebrew
$ brew update
$ brew install elixir
Macports
$ sudo port install elixir
# Fetch and install package to setup access to the official APT repository
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
# Update package index
sudo apt-get update
# Install Erlang and Elixir
sudo apt-get install esl-erlan...
Elixir is available in main packages repository.
Update the packages list before installing any package:
emerge --sync
This is one step installation:
emerge --ask dev-lang/elixir
