[Haskell-cafe] installing haskell platform on 64-bit ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)

[Andy Lee]

On 05/08/2010 03:38 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On 08/05/10 04:20, Andy Lee wrote:
>> Has anyone had problems getting Haskell Platform installed on Ubuntu 10.04?
>>
>> I've got GHC 6.12.1 installed via apt-get, and I've downloaded/untarred
>> haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0.tar.gz.  But when I run ./configure, it
>> fails fairly quickly, with an error 'cause it can't build the "hello
>> world" test program, complaining:
>>
>>      <command line>: unknown package: haskell98
>>
>>
>> Anyone else seen this? Am I missing something obvious?
>
> What does 'ghc-pkg list|grep haskell' show?
>
> /M
>
$ ghc-pkg list|grep haskell
     haskell98-1.0.1.1
     template-haskell-2.4.0.0
     haskell-src-1.0.1.3
     haskell98-1.0.1.1
     template-haskell-2.4.0.1