On Friday 07 May 2010 12:39:59, David Virebayre wrote:
"The main implementation of haskell", namely GHC, can be downloaded and installed independently, it comes with a minimal set of libraries. You can work from there to install only the libraries that you need, for that you'll need to download the packages from hackage and install them yourself, or start by either getting cabal-install if suze provides it, or compiling it. That's not so hard actually, I've done it quite often ( though on Kubuntu and Centos, not on Suze )
I don't know whether there's an openSUSE package for cabal-install, but once ghc is installed, it's no problem to get that. 1. check which version of the Cabal library you have (ghc-pkg list | grep Cabal), should be 1.6.* for ghc-6.10.*, 1.8.* for ghc-6.12.* 2. go to http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and find the appropriate version of cabal-install for your Cabal library (0.8.2 for Cabal-1.8, 0.6.4 for Cabal-1.6) 3. download the .tar.gz 4. unpack it 5. cd /path/to/cabal-install[-0.x.y] 6. chmod +x bootstrap.sh 7. ./bootstrap.sh 8. add ~/.cabal/bin to your PATH 9. cabal update 10. open ~/.cabal/config and choose your default preferences (library-profiling: True documentation: True are two things you'll probably want) 11. start hacking