[Haskell-beginners] recommended way to get haskell 6.10 installed on ubuntu hardy?

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Joe Van Dyk wrote:

> There's no ubuntu package for 6.10 (only 6.8), and the haskell
> platform says you need 6.10 installed to build the source package.

At work we use hardy and to get the latest haskell stuff I did
the following:

 a) Install ghc-6.8.
 b) Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

       deb-src http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib

 c) Get the sources to ghc-6.10 using:

       apt-get build-dep ghc6
       apt-get source ghc-6.10

 d) Build the package and install it.
 e) Apt get the sources to the libraries and build/install them.

Its painful and you do need to be reasonably comfortable with building
debian packages, but it worked for me.

Cheers,
Erik
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