[Haskell-beginners] Re: Installing packages in Ubuntu

I can't say that you NEED to be using Cabal. I have it, and I'm also an Ubuntu newbie. You can download the bootstrap installer, you'll need to install (via runghc Setup configure, runghc Setup build, runghc Install) the most recent HTML package, and parsec 2.x to get it to run. Then just add an alias (or, I did) so you don't have to write a super-long command to run Cabal. Running Kubuntu 9.10 On Sunday 08 November 2009 08:28:24 am beginners-request@haskell.org wrote:

Message: 6 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:05:34 +0000 (UTC) From: Glurk Subject: [Haskell-beginners] Installing packages in Ubuntu To: beginners@haskell.org Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,

I'm a beginner to both Cabal and Linux. I'm a bit confused as to whether I need to be using Cabal when installng packages.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, and from the Synaptic Package Manager, I can select various Haskell packages to install - will this install the package correctly, or is there something I need to do in Cabal as well ?

Thanks ! :)