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! On Friday, October 4, 2013 8:44:29 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote:

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Vagif Verdi javascript:

...

wrote:

...

13.04 has packages for ghc 7.6.2

It is easy to install latest haskell platform though.

Just run this script: https://github.com/chrisprobst/ubuntu-raring-haskell

I was hoping that something a little less painful than a full from-source install is available/known.

At http://askubuntu.com/questions/286764/how-to-install-haskell-platform-for-ub... I find this -- basically the platform dependencies seem to have been made explicit.

sudo apt-get install ghc alex cabal-install happy libghc-cgi-dev libghc-fgl-dev libghc-glut-dev libghc-haskell-src-dev libghc-html-dev libghc-http-dev libghc-hunit-dev libghc-mtl-dev libghc-network-dev libghc-opengl-dev libghc-parallel-dev libghc-parsec3-dev libghc-quickcheck2-dev libghc-regex-base-dev libghc-regex-compat-dev libghc-regex-posix-dev libghc-stm-dev libghc-syb-dev libghc-text-dev libghc-transformers-dev libghc-xhtml-dev libghc-zlib-dev

I was wondering if others know it as an ok approach or are there problems?

Rusi

Rustom, I've not looked at your forums link, what Vagif might be referring to is, since you've already got your compiler installed, installing the platform is /just/ compiling the remaining modules that are part of the platform. Of course, building the compiler from source would take a very long time. :-) Shrivats On Oct 5, 2013 10:50 AM, "Rustom Mody" wrote:

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi 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-ub...

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

Am I missing something?

_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe