Hello everyone, to give some context: I am not a real developer. I am a motion designer who enjoys doing procedural animations and installations with tools such as processing, flash, openframeworks. This might explain some of the difficulties I describe below. Wanting to broaden my thinking skills and CS knowledge, I have started to learn Haskell, and I must say I am having a great time. I am at a point now where I would like to play around with some of the popular UI and graphical libraries (gtk+, freeGlut, sdl etc). But my experience up to now has been a bit painfull in the sense that most of these packages don't install nicely with caball ( on windows XP). I managed to get gtk, freeglut, and curl to install after long hours googling around and doing voodoo in msys and cygwin. Last night I tried to install the SDL bindings to follow a blog post about automata, but completely failed. This got me to wondering if the haskell experience with regards to installing external libraries might be any easier on Linux? in advance many thanks best regards david hodgetts