I'd recommend using Herbert's PPA for installing GHC so you get something newer. bitemyapp has a good guide[1]. I'd also recommend following the Stackage installation guide[2], which builds on top of bitemyapp's guide.

[1] https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell#getting-started
[2] https://github.com/fpco/stackage/wiki/Preparing-your-system-to-use-Stackage

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Vasili I. Galchin <vigalchin@gmail.com> wrote:
My config:

runghc 7.4.1

3.2.0-61-genericĀ  #93-Ubuntu

I installed Haskell using Ubuntu's "apt-get install"

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Please see results below ... (should I instead install Haskell from haskell.org??)

vasili@vasili-VirtualBox:~/biolib$ cabal configure
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring bio-0.5.2...
Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same
package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure.
package text-1.2.0.0 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
package tagsoup-0.13.3 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
package parsec-3.1.7 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
package bio-0.5.2 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
package binary-0.4.5 requires bytestring-0.10.4.0
package unix-2.5.1.0 requires bytestring-0.9.2.1
vasili@vasili-VirtualBox:~/biolib$


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