Re: [Haskell-cafe] problems installing ghc-6.12.1-x86_64

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 18:17, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Andrew Polonsky writes:

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Help!!  I am trying to build 6.12 on a fresh 64-bit Ubuntu, with no GHC installed yet.  The compiler itself builds happily, but when I try to "make install" the Haskell platform, I eventually get the error

The Haskell Platform is currently for GHC 6.10.4, not 6.12.1.  Assuch, there's no guarantees.

Ah, that makes sense of course. But what about cabal? Is it possible to get cabal working without having the ghc package installed? Isn't there a way to set the whole thing up from the latest GHC, without dependence on distribution repositories? Thanks again, Andrew