Hi Lakshmi,

I've had two attempts at getting it going, the first I didn't get very far before
deciding to give other, more up to date, linuxes a go, but had little luck on
that front. Next time around I got further but ran out of time. The problem is
that I want to spend my time writing software (and I have a windows system
up and running) not trying to fight to get the system working. I really didn't
think it would be too much to ask that a simple install script would exist,
or at least a HowTo for one of the more popular linuxes (RedHat).

I will have another look at it this weekend and see how far I get. If I manage
to succeed I will document the process and post it to the wiki. Haskell seems
to be a great language and there are lots of helpful people in the community
who are willing to help newbies like myself get off the ground, but when the
'system' fights back as much as it does I'm not surprised that not many people
use haskell, it's just easier to use something else.

--- On Wed, 17/2/10, Lakshmi Narasimhan <lakshminaras2002@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Lakshmi Narasimhan <lakshminaras2002@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Haskell-beginners] Linux install walkthrough
To: adrianadshead@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: beginners@haskell.org
Date: Wednesday, 17 February, 2010, 13:30

Hi Adrian,

Were you able to get the installation of Leksah done ? I haven't tried installing leksah from cabal in centos myself but it would be good to know whether it is possible to get leksah built without having to upgrade gtk and glib in Centos 5.4. In that case, we might be able to use some rpms from fedora haskell platform.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Adrian

Is Centos close enough to RedHat to use Fedora packages?

The Haskell-Platform seemingly is available as a package:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/haskell-sig

Leksah has a fairly large set of dependencies so installing it might
take some work - particularly where it depends on packages outside the
Haskell Plaform (GTK, etc...) you might well want versions from
Hackage rather than ones prepackaged for Fedora. It might be worth
asking on the Fedora-Haskell-devel mailing list for better advice.

Best wishes

Stephen
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