On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Galaxy Being wrote:

> Why do I want to install cabal after stack? Any advice welcome on the
> "definitive setup." Just started a new machine with Ubuntu 20.10 on it.


On Ubuntu you can just install

$ sudo apt install ghc cabal-install

or

$ sudo apt install haskell-stack


You may also add the repository

$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hvr/ghc

in order to get a wider range of versions of ghc and cabal-install.