[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform broken in ubuntu

[Vagif Verdi]

That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform, 
source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :)
You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada!

On Friday, October 4, 2013 8:44:29 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vagif Verdi <vagif... at gmail.com<javascript:>
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>> 13.04 has packages for ghc 7.6.2
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>> It is easy to install latest haskell platform though.
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>> Just run this script: 
>> https://github.com/chrisprobst/ubuntu-raring-haskell
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> I was hoping that something a little less painful than a full from-source 
> install is available/known.
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> http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ubuntu-13-04 
> I find this -- basically the platform dependencies seem to have been made 
> explicit. 
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> sudo apt-get install ghc alex cabal-install happy libghc-cgi-dev 
> libghc-fgl-dev libghc-glut-dev libghc-haskell-src-dev libghc-html-dev 
> libghc-http-dev libghc-hunit-dev libghc-mtl-dev libghc-network-dev 
> libghc-opengl-dev libghc-parallel-dev libghc-parsec3-dev 
>  libghc-quickcheck2-dev libghc-regex-base-dev libghc-regex-compat-dev 
>  libghc-regex-posix-dev libghc-stm-dev libghc-syb-dev  libghc-text-dev 
>  libghc-transformers-dev  libghc-xhtml-dev libghc-zlib-dev
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> I was wondering if others know it as an ok approach or are there problems?
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> Rusi
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