haskell-platform problems on (latest) knoppix
Background: I'm an experienced Linuxer, but not experienced with the Debian
package-management tools. I recently decided it was time to renew my
acquaintance with Haskell, which began before the do-notation, with Hugs.
Seeing the warnings on the ghc website, I decided to install a Linux
distribution with a strongly checked package system. I chose Knoppix-7.2.0
i386 (the latest, dated mid-2013), which installed with few problems (now
fixed). It claimed to be based on wheezy, the stable branch.
Even though the version of haskell-platform in wheezy/stable
was from mid-2012, I presumed it would be debugged by now - after all,
that's
what "stable" is supposed to mean. So I hooked it up to the net, and
entered
apt-get install haskell-platform
After a few seconds, it said that there were broken packages - I think they
were
libglut-dev and libgl-dev - and that it couldn't fix them. Aptitude, which
has
a menu-item called 'fix broken packages', couldn't fix them, either. If I
recall correctly, there were intrinsically unsatisfiable version
constraints,
i.e. >=V and
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 15.10.2013, 18:04 -0400 schrieb dhw@thedance.net:
Even though the version of haskell-platform in wheezy/stable was from mid-2012, I presumed it would be debugged by now - after all, that's what "stable" is supposed to mean. So I hooked it up to the net, and entered
apt-get install haskell-platform
After a few seconds, it said that there were broken packages - I think they were libglut-dev and libgl-dev - and that it couldn't fix them.
I cannot speak for knoppix, but in plain Debian wheezy, all Haskell packages are installable; we check this regular using a jenkins jobs: http://jenkins.debian.net/view/chroot-installation/job/chroot-installation_w... Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:04:12PM -0400, dhw@thedance.net wrote:
Background: I'm an experienced Linuxer, but not experienced with the Debian package-management tools. I recently decided it was time to renew my acquaintance with Haskell, which began before the do-notation, with Hugs. Seeing the warnings on the ghc website, I decided to install a Linux distribution with a strongly checked package system. I chose Knoppix-7.2.0 i386 (the latest, dated mid-2013), which installed with few problems (now fixed). It claimed to be based on wheezy, the stable branch. Even though the version of haskell-platform in wheezy/stable was from mid-2012, I presumed it would be debugged by now - after all, that's what "stable" is supposed to mean. So I hooked it up to the net, and entered
apt-get install haskell-platform
I have a VPS which is can only run old Ubuntu LTS which has GHC 7.4.1 and associated out of date libraries. So I install GHC from the binary tarball (to /usr/local) and then use cabal for any extra libraries I need. No apt-get, no Haskell Platform. If you're just getting back into Haskell you may find that 'apt-get install ghc' or the tarball is all you need, the platform may be overkill.
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