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

[Juan Maiz]

In Jaunty it's available.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs at mega-nerd.com<mle%2Bhs at mega-nerd.com>
> wrote:

> 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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