Iain Barnett wrote:
3) one for luck, Debian doesn't have a package for cabal-install or the haskell zlib library, so it can't solve this for me either. Unless it can use .cabal files, and why would I know this and what would the commands be?
Haskell in Debian is currently in a rather poor state although I and others are working on fixing it. Currently, I would personally write off Debian stable and testing for any serious haskell coding as both ship ghc 6.8.2 which is missing a bunch of rather important stuff that is in ghc 6.10.X. In Debian unstable we currently have ghc-6.10.3 and a growing number of libraries (including zlib and bzlib), but there is also some nasty breakage, like haskell-network is currently not installable due to a build dependency being stuck in the Debian NEW queue. However, all of the above problems are able to be worked around if you know a little about building binary debian packages from debian source packages. I currently run Ubuntu 9.04 as my main development machine and add the Debian unstable deb-src line to sources.list and then build binary Debian packages from the Debian source packages and install those. I really should blog this :-). HTH, Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/