[Haskell-cafe] Can't install Haskell Platform on 64-bit Linux

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I installed GHC 6.10.4 (as ./configure said it was required) from a .bz2 file on the GHC downloads page. I then tried ./configure for the platform again, and got: checking ghc actually works... no configure: error: Your installation of ghc does not appear to work. It cannot compile a simple

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't install Haskell Platform on 64-bit Linux

2009-08-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Colin Paul Adamsco...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: I installed GHC 6.10.4 (as ./configure said it was required) from a .bz2 file on the GHC downloads page. I then tried ./configure for the platform again, and got: What distribution of Linux do you use? I'd

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't install Haskell Platform on 64-bit Linux

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Magnus == Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org writes: Magnus On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Colin Paul Magnus Adamsco...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: I installed GHC 6.10.4 (as ./configure said it was required) from a .bz2 file on the GHC downloads page. I then tried

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't install Haskell Platform on 64-bit Linux

2009-08-18 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Magnus == Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org writes: Magnus Ouch, there only seems to be a version of 6.10.3 in Fedora Magnus 11, if I read this correctly: Magnus https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/ghc Magnus (I'm not a Fedora user so I might be completely