[Haskell-beginners] Can't install haskell-platform on OpenSuse 10.3 without Glut

[David Carter]

On 7 May 2010 13:38, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> wrote:
> On Friday 07 May 2010 12:39:59, David Virebayre wrote:
>> "The main implementation of haskell", namely GHC, can be downloaded
>> and installed independently, it comes with a minimal set of libraries.
>> You can work from there to install only the libraries that you need,
>> for that you'll need to download the packages from hackage and install
>> them yourself, or start by either getting cabal-install if suze
>> provides it, or compiling it.  That's not so hard actually, I've done
>> it quite often ( though on Kubuntu and Centos, not on Suze )
>
> I don't know whether there's an openSUSE package for cabal-install, but
> once ghc is installed, it's no problem to get that.
> 1. check which version of the Cabal library you have
> (ghc-pkg list | grep Cabal), should be 1.6.* for ghc-6.10.*, 1.8.* for
> ghc-6.12.*
> 2. go to http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and find the
> appropriate version of cabal-install for your Cabal library (0.8.2 for
> Cabal-1.8, 0.6.4 for Cabal-1.6)
> 3. download the .tar.gz
> 4. unpack it
> 5. cd /path/to/cabal-install[-0.x.y]
> 6. chmod +x bootstrap.sh
> 7. ./bootstrap.sh
> 8. add ~/.cabal/bin to your PATH
> 9. cabal update
> 10. open ~/.cabal/config and choose your default preferences
> (library-profiling: True
> documentation: True
> are two things you'll probably want)
> 11. start hacking

Thanks, Daniel -- that worked for me (at least as far as 10 -- step 11
is another story for another day :-)).

David