[Haskell-beginners] haskell platform

[aditya siram]

You can just download and install the binary version of 6.12.1 from
the GHC website [1]. It will stick the GHC binary and libraries under
/usr/local. This shouldn't interfere with Karmic which installs it to
/usr/ and '/usr/local' is usually first on the search path.

Once you have your compiler installed Haskell Platform should be a breeze.

Once everything's working you can then delete using Synaptic.

BTW I know that other people on this list differ but I think
installing any Haskell-related packages using apt-get is a bad idea.
Cabal is so easy that it makes apt-get obsolete.

hth,
-deech

[1] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_1.html#x86linux

On 4/2/10, Irvin <irvin.hwang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm having trouble installing Haskell platform using Ubuntu (Karmic
> Koala).  When I run ./configure I get the message
>
> configure: error: The Haskell Platform version 2010.1.0.0 requires
> ghc-6.12.1  It is recommended that you upgrade to ghc-6.12.1 however
> if you really want to use this release with an unsupported version of
> GHC then use ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version
>
> In synaptic the latest version of ghc is 6.10.xx; I've tried doing
> ./configure --enable-unsupported-ghc-version, but make fails to set up
> Cabal.
> Any suggestions?  Should I just try to set up everything piece-meal?
> Do I need to remove the currently installed version of ghc using
> synaptic before I try to use the 6.12.1 installer or build it from
> source.  Thanks.
> Best,
> Irvin
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