Hi, 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.
From the ghc downloads page it says the Debian packages are in Debian testing and unstable (I assume 'testing' is the one people are supposed to use(?)). I've managed to get ghc by itself by just browsing the Debian testing repo at http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/ but the problem arises when I try to get the library packages, since some of them eg libghc6-base-dev, libghc6-base-prof are not listed there (also not found in the unstable repo at the corresponding url above).
I'm trying to find all the ghc library packages so I can download them to my own computer and make a local repository to then add to my /etc/apt/sources.list so that I can install the libs without the danger of their dependencies causing other things in the Debian repository to overwrite stuff I've already got from the Ubuntu repository (I've read about apt pinning but this is far too complicated and risky for me at my level of inexperience, and the last time I added the whole Debian repo to my apt sources I make a complete mess of my installation and had to start from scratch...). The ideal thing would be if there was a ghc repo hosted by haskell.org containing only ghc* + libghc* so that any Debian-related linux distro could use it safely by adding the repo to the software sources, so that other things the packages depend on could be obtained from the distro-specific repository as usual (eg libc etc). In any case has anyone managed to get the latest ghc + libs installed in Ubuntu without breaking their system (or their mind :-)) ? Thanks, Brian.