[Haskell-cafe] Re: Trouble trying to find packages for ubuntu linux

Thomas Hartman tphyahoo at gmail.com
Thu Apr 5 05:30:10 EDT 2007


> and in more detail in
> my other post linked above.

I meant, linked below.

2007/4/5, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com>:
> In the spirit of...
>
>   I hate package chasing, cabal doesn't do this automatically (yet),
> and hard disk space is cheap...
>
>   Here is a script to just hit the deb/ubuntu repos and install as
> much haskell-loooking stuff as possible.
>
>   If you're going to do this, I would recommend pulling at least from
> the feisty repo, as described in pupeno's blog, and in more detail in
> my other post linked above.
>
>   Basically, this installs all ghc6* packages, with ad-hoc blocking of
> packages that cause aptitude to complain.
>
>   The basic approach seems sound though. If it gets stuck at some
> point, I'll just add the offending package to the filter list.  (I
> suspect there's a more intelligent way to do this if you know debian
> package management better than I do.)
>
>  The script below has been cranking away for a pretty long time now --
> so not only may your mileage vary, mine isnt' even yet.
>
>   I also wouldn't recommend doing this on a production server.
> (When/if I hose my system, I can reload a virgin ubuntu in under five
> minutes using my linode control panel.)
>
> *********
>
> apt-cache search libghc6 | ghc -e 'interact $ unlines . map (\l ->
> head $ words l ) . lines' \
>   | grep -ivE \(ghc6-hopengl\|libghc6-c2hs-dev\) \
>   | xargs apt-get -y install
>
>
> 2007/3/16, Chad Scherrer <chad.scherrer at gmail.com>:
> > Brian,
> >
> > I had this exact problem, and I found this approach to work wonderfully:
> >
> > http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/
> >
> >
> > Chad
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