Hi Daniel. I haven't used rpm based systems very much. So this might not help you ..
Unfortunately not. If sidux were rpm-based, I might not have these problems. On my SuSE at home I'm a happy ghc-user. Now, I'm visiting my brother, he's a bleeding-edge junkie and his most recent bleeding edge is sidux (branched off kanotix with the express aim to be extra edgy). Since I'll stay for more than a weekend, I want my Haskell here, too. I "apt-get install"ed ghc, got no errors, but can't run it, because sidux has no libreadline.so.4, which ghc needs. So I tried to install a libreadline.so.4, first via the compatibility package linked from the ghc-page. No success, complained about unfulfilled dependencies like ldconfig, though all mentioned dependencies ARE installed here (at least, locate finds them). Tried apt-get install libreadline4, couldn't find a candidate for installation (probably too old :-(, I'm half astonished that sidux is not past libreadline.so.5). So, any debian-users out there, how did you get libreadline.so.4 installed? Maybe that would work for sidux, too.
Try using ldd on you ghc binary to see all dll dependencies. ldd says: not a dynamic executable
Perhaps this gives you some info why the libraries aren't found.
In general you can try using tools like www.rmpseek.com to find missing packages. Found plenty, but: Just can't find one which I can install here...
If libraries aren't found running ldconfig might help. This recreates all symlinks.
But perhaps the most easiest way is trying to make your sidux box using debian package repositories (don't know wether this messes up your system) as I think the ghc rpm package was compiled and tested with them.
You might also try installig ghc from source (you need another ghc binary install first to bootstrap) You can find documentation about how to install from source on the ghc site.
No ghc here, yet, once I have, I WILL build from source.
If really everythig else fails you can also create a new environment containing another os (such as debian) eg by using user mode linux. (Then you need some more disk space)
Maybe I can persuade my brother to get a decent linux installation, like SuSE or RedHat, where you can just install rpm's and be done.
Do you have any recent ghc running?
Good luck Marc
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