[Haskell-beginners] about installation of Haskell

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 03:03:30 schrieb love_pku:
> Dear Sir or Madam::
>
>   Sorry to trouble you!
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>   I am a beginner of Haskell and I just run into problems to install it.
> So I hope if you can tell me which version of Haskell should I   use for
> Ubuntu 8.04 operating system..

I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but

apt-get install libghc6*

or something like that should get you started (perhaps apt-search haskell 
first - or was it apt-get search?).
Once you have GHC installed, you can start.

You'll probably want cabal-install to easily get and build Haskell 
libraries, so go to
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install
and download a tarball. Depending on the GHC version apt-get gives you, 
you'd want different versions of cabal-install.
6.12.1 -> 0.8.0,
6.10.* -> 0.6.*,
6.8.* -> 0.5.*,
I think. (If it's 6.8.*, maybe you want to get a newer GHC from 
http://haskell.org/ghc/download.html)
Run 'ghc-pkg list' to find out which version of the Cabal (uppercase C) 
library came with your GHC, and search the cabal-install packages for 
corresponding constraints on Cabal.
Download that version, unpack it. In the unpacked directory, run 
bootstrap.sh and you should have everything you need to start happy Haskell 
hacking :D

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>   Thank you very much!
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> Best wishes,
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>                                                 Yours juan