Re: Trouble trying to find packages for ubuntu linux

Brian Hulley wrote:

I'm a total linux newbie and am trying to get ghc6.6 installed together with all the libraries. I'm using Ubuntu linux which uses Debian package format but has its own repositories which only have ghc6.4.2 at the moment.

I'm in the same situation, and found it most convenient to download and install a binary snapshot of GHC to /usr/local. (I also tried to get Ubuntu to ship 6.4.2 in Dapper and 6.6 in Edgy, but both were a tad too late. I bet 6.6.1 will arrive just after Feisty is out, too :-) Anyway: the binary snapshots are easy and quick to install, includes a bunch of libraries, and cabal makes it easy to add anything else. -k