Oops my bad. The script downloads and installs binary, already compiled ghc.

So it certainly does not take 2 hours, i just did it on 2 computers and it takes less than a couple of minutes. I did not though install the entire haskell platform, only ghc itself.

On Friday, October 4, 2013 10:19:39 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote:

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi <vagif...@gmail.com> wrote:

That will give you only ghc 7.6.2. If you want latest haskell-platform, source compile is the only option. And btw it is not THAT painful :)
You run the script, wait 2-3 minutes and tada!

Ok so someone is very confused -- maybe me :-)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ubuntu-13-04

seems to say that compiling from source takes like two full nights!!

 

Am I missing something?