I think this will depend a lot on what you mean by "newest."  If you really want an up-to-the-minute system, you'll of course have to compile it from yourself, out of the version control system.  You might be able to install the build dependencies easily using apt-get build-deps.

Of course, if you're happy with the debs in the repository, you can just install those through apt-get normally.  If you're trying to backport newer debs to an older version of Ubuntu, that can be done, but will require some work, and may not be very easy if the new versions have dependencies on new versions of other packages.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I have 2 questions regarding Haskell platform.

1. If I would like to install the newest Haskell platform on say Ubuntu
Precise which is in the making I could proceed like follows:
 - install all dep packges from
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/haskell-platform
  which means I would manually have to download all debs and install
  them thereafter.

  Is this true?

2. I have Ubuntu Lucid and like to install the newest Haskell platform.
  Do I have to build it from source?


I didn't find any (big picture) documentation telling me how the
installation pathes possibly are. As can be seen I'm pretty confused
how to proceed.


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Manfred


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