Hi Colin, I only know about one other option: Try user mode linux / qemu / anotehr virtualziing software and setup the environment within that which you need... :-( Another thing you could try is installing nix (nixos.org) (software distirbution system).. It bootstraps current ghc via ghc-6.4.2 from binaries / source automatically (Don't think older compilers are supported than 6.4.x) but you'll get a complete copy of each system lib within the store direcotry. So you need some disk space. And I can't guarantee that it works out of the box.. (it works with 2.6.9 kernel.. don't know about older ones) If all you want to do is toying around I can give you an ssh account to my server which has ghc installed. Anyway be prepared that there is no IDE support coming close to what Eclipse provides for the Java language.. Sincerly Marc