Platform for Mac OS 10.6
Hello people - trying to get back into Haskell again after previous flirtation which was long enough ago to forget almost everything, it seems. I appear to be lost in a mirror maze in trying to work out again how to bring my platform more up to date on Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). The macos link for download at http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html however does not seem to work. I do not get a working installer package just an "Unknown" 204mb file. ? Sniffing around via GHC pages I find this page: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages where it says "For Mac OS X we provide a native system installer, available on the download page for each release. We recommend using these installers " However the 'download page' link just takes you circularly back to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download ? This page http://www.haskell.org/platform/index.html says the the current platform version is 2013.2.0 From my own past notes I should currently have platform 2011.4.0.0 I do definitely have GHC 7.0.4-x86_64 I also ran 'cabal update' as I dimly remembered that I should do this, and it indicated there was another version of cabal install available by doing a "cabal install cabal-install" but this complains: "$ cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure process-1.2.0.0. It requires base >=4.4 && <4.8 For the dependency on base >=4.4 && <4.8 there are these packages: . . ." I have base 4.3.1.0 (as indicated by GHC-PKG LIST). I thought refreshing the overall package level would be the most straightforward way to update to a consistent state as at least the first step. Hopefully I'm just having a bad day... I have two main motivations here (1) general refresh (2) get latest Open-GL stuff - in case that affects the answer. Can anyone recommend/remind/help with how best to approach this? Many thanks/ Henry
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Henry Lockyer wrote: The macos link for download at [1]http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html however does not seem to work. I do not get a working installer package just an "Unknown" 204mb file. ? It's possible that your download was corrupted or did not finish. If you have a way to calculate the sha1 sum, you can compare it to the one on that webpage. (For example, you could use sha1sum from the md5sha1sum Homebrew package.) Or, if your connection is reasonably fast, just try downloading it again. -Karl References 1. http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html
Thanks Karl I did try the download several times. 'Unknown' and 'Unknown-1' are 2 separate downloads. $ openssl sha1 /Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown-1 SHA1(/Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown-1)= 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 $ openssl sha1 /Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown SHA1(/Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown)= 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 Both have the same checkum as published on the download page... SHA-1: 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 /Henry On 19 Apr 2014, at 18:39, Karl Voelker wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Henry Lockyer wrote:
The macos link for download at http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html however does not seem to work. I do not get a working installer package just an "Unknown" 204mb file. ?
It's possible that your download was corrupted or did not finish. If you have a way to calculate the sha1 sum, you can compare it to the one on that webpage. (For example, you could use sha1sum from the md5sha1sum Homebrew package.) Or, if your connection is reasonably fast, just try downloading it again.
-Karl _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Mmm. clicking the download link does not work but ctrl-click and 'download linked file...' to the desktop now seems to have worked and it is recognised as a package... Monkeys at typewriters/ H On 20 Apr 2014, at 11:24, Henry Lockyer wrote:
Thanks Karl I did try the download several times. 'Unknown' and 'Unknown-1' are 2 separate downloads. $ openssl sha1 /Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown-1 SHA1(/Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown-1)= 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 $ openssl sha1 /Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown SHA1(/Users/henrylockyer/Downloads/Unknown)= 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 Both have the same checkum as published on the download page... SHA-1: 89e6fb747816af69acabc5c04cee103257855614 /Henry
On 19 Apr 2014, at 18:39, Karl Voelker wrote:
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Henry Lockyer wrote:
The macos link for download at http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html however does not seem to work. I do not get a working installer package just an "Unknown" 204mb file. ?
It's possible that your download was corrupted or did not finish. If you have a way to calculate the sha1 sum, you can compare it to the one on that webpage. (For example, you could use sha1sum from the md5sha1sum Homebrew package.) Or, if your connection is reasonably fast, just try downloading it again.
-Karl _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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