Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

Ketil Malde writes:

I think people who are too lazy to bother to find out how their distribution works, should avoid any distribution.

% apt-cache search foo % sudo apt-get install libghc6-foo\*

Agreed (to the extent that someone who can't be bothered figuring out an "advanced" distribution like Gentoo or LFS should try a "simpler" one first like Ubuntu before completely giving up).

Erik de Castro Lopo writes:

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Debian doesn't have 'The Haskell Platform', it has a package named haskell-platform

Ubuntu (10.4) doesn't seem to? Is this an omission?

Hasn't been ported yet IIRC. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com