[Haskell-beginners] Problem installing Haskell platform on Ubuntu Karmic

[aditya siram]

Try to download and install the GHC binary [1] directly, do a "make
clean" and then "make".  Ubuntu does not really maintain the latest
versions of Haskell libraries or the GHC compiler so try not to use
apt-get to install them.

It is much better to install GHC manually and Haskell Platform
manually and then install everything you need using "cabal-install".

-deech

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