[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

[Adrien Haxaire]

 Hello,

 I encountered the same kind of problems with the dependencies, GHC 6.12 
 etc.

 I dropped the idea of installing Haskell Platform with synaptic. I 
 installed it manually and I don't have any problem since then.

 I installed first a precompiled binary version GHC 7 then the Haskell 
 Platform 2011. It takes more time (about 2 hours on my case), but you 
 are sure to have the lastest version of GHC and Haskell Platform. I had 
 to assign some symlinks manually, but it took me 5 min.

 Adrien




 On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:04:41 +0400, Dmitri O.Kondratiev wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to install Haskell Platform on latest Ubuntu desktop:
> ( uname -a:
> Linux frigate 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC
> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux )
>
> I started with installing GHC.  Ubuntu could only install version
> 6.12.3: without Cabal!
> Now I am trying to install haskell-platform which is a separate
> package. Ubuntu suggests to insatll version 2010.1.0.0.1 and fails
> (see bellow).
> What sould I do now to get GHC + Cabal? Should I:
> 1) De-insatll  GHC  6.12.3 and all related libraries and try then
> installing Haskell Platform again?
> 2) Should I install Caball separately and forget about Haskell
> Platform?
> 3) Provide somehow for two different installations? 
>
> Thanks!
>