[Haskell-cafe] installing haskell on ubuntu using apt-get??

Michael Snoyman michael at snoyman.com
Wed Nov 5 07:21:42 UTC 2014


I'd recommend using Herbert's PPA for installing GHC so you get something
newer. bitemyapp has a good guide[1]. I'd also recommend following the
Stackage installation guide[2], which builds on top of bitemyapp's guide.

[1] https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell#getting-started
[2]
https://github.com/fpco/stackage/wiki/Preparing-your-system-to-use-Stackage

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My config:
>
> runghc 7.4.1
>
> 3.2.0-61-generic  #93-Ubuntu
>
> I installed Haskell using Ubuntu's "apt-get install"
>
> ========================================================
>
>
> Please see results below ... (should I instead install Haskell from
> haskell.org??)
>
> vasili at vasili-VirtualBox:~/biolib$ cabal configure
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring bio-0.5.2...
> Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same
> package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure.
> package text-1.2.0.0 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
> package tagsoup-0.13.3 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
> package parsec-3.1.7 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
> package bio-0.5.2 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
> package binary-0.4.5 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
> package unix-2.5.1.0 requires bytestring-0.9.2.1
> vasili at vasili-VirtualBox:~/biolib$
>
>
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