Oops my bad. The script downloads and installs binary, already compiled ghc.
So it certainly does not take 2 hours, i just did it on 2 computers and it takes less than a couple of minutes. I did not though install the entire haskell platform, only ghc itself. On Friday, October 4, 2013 10:19:39 PM UTC-7, rusi wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Vagif Verdi <vagif...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > 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-ubuntu-13-04 > > seems to say that compiling from source takes like two full nights!! > > Am I missing something? >
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