Background: I'm an experienced Linuxer, but not experienced with the Debian
package-management tools. I recently decided it was time to renew my
acquaintance with Haskell, which began before the do-notation, with Hugs.
Seeing the warnings on the ghc website, I decided to install a Linux
distribution with a strongly checked package system. I chose Knoppix-7.2.0
i386 (the latest, dated mid-2013), which installed with few problems (now
fixed). It claimed to be based on wheezy, the stable branch.
Even though the version of haskell-platform in wheezy/stable
was from mid-2012, I presumed it would be debugged by now - after all,
that's
what "stable" is supposed to mean. So I hooked it up to the net, and
entered
apt-get install haskell-platform
After a few seconds, it said that there were broken packages - I think they
were
libglut-dev and libgl-dev - and that it couldn't fix them. Aptitude, which
has
a menu-item called 'fix broken packages', couldn't fix them, either. If I
recall correctly, there were intrinsically unsatisfiable version
constraints,
i.e. >=V and