For anyone who wants XMonad 0.9 on Ubuntu Karmic and wants to avoid cabal install, I've conveniently put the package from debian sid on my [Personal Package Archive], on launchpad. I've also made a relatively useless [blog post] about it. To get it, do the following: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:justinbogner/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install xmonad libghc6-xmonad-dev libghc6-xmonad-contrib-dev unreleased dzen2 from SVN with clickable areas is also packaged up in there. [Personal Package Archive]: https://launchpad.net/~justinbogner/+archive/ppa [blog post]: http://blogner.ca/posts/xmonad-0.9