Anuradha L wrote:
Can anyone point me to a tutorial or howto on haskell package management under debian/ubuntu?
Don't know if there is one.
Some of the things that are making my head spin...
How when to use hackage/cabal? And when apt?
Opinions will vary, but my advice is to use your distribution's package manager where possible, and where not possible, file bug reports to get packages added. I filed a bug report requesting weighted-regexp, and a package was uploaded to Debian unstable less than 24 hours later. Debian has a very responsive haskell maintainence team whose main issue is identifying remaining good packages in hackage that have not gotten packaged yet. I use cabal if I'm not on a development machine (so Debian stable rather than unstable), and need a newer version of something. The way Debian packages haskell packages lets cabal know about them, so it interoperates nicely.
How to translate haskell internal names (ie names given to import) to package names ie either cabal or apt names?
To find what package contains a module I typically use Hayoo. http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html#0:Data.Text From hackage to debian package name there is a simple transformation before ghc7, use libghc6-<hackagename>-dev ghc7 and above, use libghc-<hackagename>-dev
Global (/usr) vs local (under $HOME) packages and figuring out paths
Opinions will probably vary, I don't like installing system wide software outside the control of my distribution's package manager and so have only used cabal inside HOME. -- see shy jo