Re: [Haskell-beginners] Linux install walkthrough

Adrian, The Haskell Platform is still relatively new, and therefore binary support is not so good for Linux yet. But you don't actually lose much from what the Platform would give you if you use the GHC 6.10 binary releases from http://haskell.org/ghc/ The fact that this old-fashioned way works so well has also slowed adoption of the Platform on Linux. This worked nicely for me on Ubuntu before the Haskell Platform existed. Once GHC is installed, you then install cabal-install by hand using its bootstrap script. Add $HOME/.cabal/bin/ to your PATH, and then you can install any package easily with the 'cabal install' command. There is no essential difference between this setup and the Platform, except you start with fewer packages. Give that a try - You should find it works without fuss. I suggest you use 6.10 (not 6.12) as it's the most stable at present. There are two Linux binary variants - depending on what libraries are present on your system (one RedHat flavoured and one Debian flavoured). This is explained on the download page. Steve Adrian Adshead wrote:

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 //* wrote:

From: Lakshmi Narasimhan 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 > 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

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-- Regards Lakshmi Narasimhan T V

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