For Lucid, there's various ppas. This one looks like it'll give you ghc7 on Lucid: https://launchpad.net/~mbeloborodiy/+archive/ppa For the latest Ubuntu, you can just pull from the standard repos arthur@jumpjet:/etc/apt$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.10 Release: 11.10 Codename: oneiric arthur@jumpjet:/etc/apt$ apt-cache search haskell-platform haskell-platform - Standard Haskell libraries and tools haskell-platform-doc - Standard Haskell libraries and tools; documentaion haskell-platform-prof - Standard Haskell libraries and tools; profiling libraries arthur@jumpjet:/etc/apt$ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.3 -- Arthur Clune arthur@clune.org On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> wrote:
Let's say I'd like to have a ghc 7.0x on Ubuntu Lucid. It seems that Lucid has ghc6 by default.