[Haskell-beginners] Haskell platform confusing to me

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi all,
I have 2 questions regarding Haskell platform.

1. If I would like to install the newest Haskell platform on say Ubuntu
Precise which is in the making I could proceed like follows:
 - install all dep packges from
   http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/haskell-platform
   which means I would manually have to download all debs and install
   them thereafter.

   Is this true?

2. I have Ubuntu Lucid and like to install the newest Haskell platform. 
   Do I have to build it from source?


I didn't find any (big picture) documentation telling me how the
installation pathes possibly are. As can be seen I'm pretty confused
how to proceed. 


-- 
Manfred