Hi Roman, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
I think I'll face with the similar problem in the nearest future, except I have far more old system. So I'll be very greatful if you provide the instructions and record your experience.
OK, here's a brief summary of what I did. I hope I'm not forgetting anything. (Looks like I may need to do this again soon for 6.10, unless they support Debian stable this time.) On a Debian testing system with some disk space: 1. Install the cdebootstrap package. 2. cdebootstrap --flavour=build etch JAIL http:://your.debian.mirror where JAIL is the path to a new directory that will now be created, and http://your.domain.mirror is the URL to your favorite Debian mirror. 3. Download the GHC 6.8.3 source tarball (ghc-6.8.3-src.tar.bz2) and put it in JAIL/root/. 4. Become root. 5. cd JAIL/root 6. chroot .. You are now root in a simulated copy of the etch distribution. 7. apt-get update 8. apt-get install ghc6 9. tar xjvf ghc-6.8.3-src.tar.bz2 10. cd ghc-6.8.3 11. ./configure 12. make 13. Go to sleep. Wake up the next morning - it's done. 14. make install 15. ^D to exit the chroot jail. ^D again to exit the root shell. You are now yourself again. 16. cd JAIL 17. tar cjvf ghc-6.8.3-etch.tar.bz2 usr/local/bin usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.3 usr/local/share/doc/ghc 18. Upload ghc-6.8.3-etch.tar.bz2 to your target etch machine. Now, on the target etch machine: 19. cd / 20. sudo tar xjvf /path/to/ghc-6.8.3-etch.tar.bz2 21. Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH by default. Regards, Yitz