pieter:

Hi,

When I try to install haskell platform 64 bit on a x86_64 debian etch I get the following error after :

"make install":

/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 -d "/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/package.conf.d" "/usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/ghc-pkg" --force --global-conf "/usr/local/lib/ ghc-6.12.3/package.conf.d" update libffi/package.conf.install /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.12.3/ghc-pkg: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [install_packages] Error 127 make: *** [install] Error 2

I have no good strategy to locate the needed library. A quick google search yielded ncurses, but I have already installed it, and it doesn't contain that binary. Furthermore configure doesn't yield any errors. And a dependency on ncurses does seem quite strange doesn't it ?

I think you're using the wrong pre-installed GHC. There are two provided, one for ncurses and one for libtinfo. Alternatively, you can ln -s libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5 -- Don