Re: [Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository

14 Oct 2013

      Hi Simon,

Thanks for that.
I already have it on the list, and this one:
  ppa:fmarier/git-annex
with many packages already precompiled.
(if someone doesn't want cabal)

br,

vlatko

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] No upgrade of GHC version in Ubuntu repository
From: Simon Hengel <sol@typeful.net>
To: Vlatko Basic <vlatko.basic@gmail.com>
Cc: Lizanets Danylo <iamweasel@ukr.net>, haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Date: 14.10.2013 15:33
...
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 01:28:17PM +0200, Vlatko Basic wrote:
...
I have 7.6.3 already, but I was wondering why the repository packages are not
maintained.
12.04 is an LTS for 5 years, so I suppose many would stick to it for a longer
time.
I added PPAs for GHC 7.6.3 recently.  Feel free to use:
sudo apt-get --purge remove ghc
     sudo apt-get --purge remove cabal-install
     sudo apt-add-repository ppa:typeful/ghc-7.6.3
     sudo apt-add-repository ppa:typeful/cabal-install
     sudo apt-get update
     sudo apt-get install ghc cabal-install
This assumes that you only want to install GHC and cabal-install with
apt and everything else from Hackage.
Cheers,
Simon