Re: [Haskell-cafe] installing GHC/Haskell Platform in Linux without root permission

On Thursday 09 September 2010 20:23:13, Ali Razavi wrote:

Unfortunately I don't have ghc installed. Can I install it without root priv?

That ought to work. I just unpacked and installed ghc-6.8.3-i386-unknown- linux.tar.bz2 in a subdir of $HOME without root privileges. (I would've tried a newer release, but I had the 6.8.3 vanilla binary just happening to lie around.) So in principle it works, if it doesn't work with a later vanilla linux binary, that would be a surprise (and a bug), but then you could use an older one to build from source (that works, promised, I have done that a lot).

On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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ali.razavi:

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Is it possible to install either of these (preferably the latter) somewhere in my home directory without having root permission? I tried the unknown linux package with configure --prefix set to a subdir in my home, to no avail. The problem seems to be due to some library registration which fails.

Assuming you have GHC installed, the Haskell Platform Linux generic source installer will install without root privledges.

If that doesn't work for you, file a bug with a log of what failed on the HP bug tracker.

-- Don