While the recommended path for linux installation is use the systems' distribution repos to install the haskell platform package from there.... it can take quite a bit of time from the release of the platform to the point where those packages get built and accepted into the release repo for a linux distribution.
The last Platform I included an alternative "bindist" style tarball, and a script, activate-hs, that allows people to mostly "just untar and go". But, it leaves somethings things to be desired: - People don't like untar'ing at / - even if the tarball was just a script and an inner tarball, and that "installer" script did the untar'ing at /, people would feel a lot more comfortable. Especially if that installer script did some sanity checks. - The activate-hs script could do a fair bit more checking it's actions than it does now. If you have a hankering to do some imperative shell scripting in the name of functional programming, this is just the ticket! Speaking of tickets, here are some from the Issues list: - activate-hs does not handle all errors <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/178> - activate-hs creates broken symlinks on Linux <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/158> - failure of symLinkInto, if not exists $prefix/share/man/man1 <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/133> - Linux binary installer does not check for required C libs (apparently) <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/145> The first three have fixes alread in the pre-release branch... but they could be better I bet. - Mark
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