I'd recommend ghc, not because its the best distribution, but because its the only one I've used. Here are the simplest directions I could find that seemed correct: http://www.mickinator.com/wordpress/?p=31 I'm sure there are directions for hugs, but I haven't used hugs on Ubuntu. Good luck, Tim ________________________________ From: love_pku <love_pku@yeah.net> To: "beginners@haskell.org" <beginners@haskell.org> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 7:03:30 PM Subject: [Haskell-beginners] about installation of Haskell Dear Sir or Madam:: Sorry to trouble you! I am a beginner of Haskell and I just run into problems to install it. So I hope if you can tell me which version of Haskell should I use for Ubuntu 8.04 operating system.. Thank you very much! Best wishes, Yours juan