[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
Hi, I am trying to install Haskell Platform on latest Ubuntu desktop: ( uname -a: Linux frigate 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux ) I started with installing GHC. Ubuntu could only install version 6.12.3: without Cabal! Now I am trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
Hello, I encountered the same kind of problems with the dependencies, GHC 6.12 etc. I dropped the idea of installing Haskell Platform with synaptic. I installed it manually and I don't have any problem since then. I installed first a precompiled binary version GHC 7 then the Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
Adrien Haxaire adrien at adrienhaxaire.org wrote: I dropped the idea of installing Haskell Platform with synaptic. I installed it manually and I don't have any problem since then. To install GHC 7, have you completely de-installed GHC 6.12.3 and all related libraries ? On Mon, Jul 4, 2011

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread anonymous
No, you shouldn't need to do that. Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC 7: http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2 Extract ghc, change into the directory, run configure, then make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
To install GHC 7, have you completely de-installed GHC 6.12.3 and all related libraries ? I am not sure if uninstalling GHC 6.12.3 is mandatory, but I did it to have a clean Haskell installation. Then I did what anonymous has summarized below: Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Dmitri O.Kondratiev
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:24 PM, anonymous qubi...@gmail.com wrote: No, you shouldn't need to do that. Just download the Haskell Platform and GHC 7: http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu: Installation Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Adrien Haxaire
You're welcome :) Adrien On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 19:09:50 +0400, Dmitri O.Kondratiev wrote: I noticed that ) I removed GHC 6 completely. Then installed platform-independent GHC 7 compiler. Next to configure and eventually compile Haskell Platform I had to install  libgmp3-dev, zlib and OpenGL

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-07 Thread Jochem Berndsen
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: GHC in Ubuntu is a pain! The same is also currently true for GHC on Debian stable and testing. Debian unstable is also a bit broken. I only use Debian Stable, but I don't find it very hard to use. I just use the binary packages from www.haskell.org. That said,

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-06 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Is there anyone working on a Haskell Platform package for Ubuntu? GHC in Ubuntu is a pain! Regards Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-06 Thread Don Stewart
RafaelGCPP.Linux: Is there anyone working on a Haskell Platform package for Ubuntu? GHC in Ubuntu is a pain! The Debian team is working on packaging, but until then (or if someone on Ubuntu steps up), you'll need to use the Unix tarball:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-06 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote: Is there anyone working on a Haskell Platform package for Ubuntu? For Haskell on Ubuntu, the vast majority of all the work is done by the Debian Haskell maintainers. Ubuntu simply takes that work and rolls packages for Ubuntu. GHC in Ubuntu is a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-06 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Thanks. I may even be the one to step up, if nothing happens till 9.10... I really miss up-to-date ghc in Ubuntu. 2009/7/6 Don Stewart d...@galois.com RafaelGCPP.Linux: Is there anyone working on a Haskell Platform package for Ubuntu? GHC in Ubuntu is a pain! The Debian team is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform on Ubuntu

2009-07-06 Thread Stefan Roggensack
Hello, I have uploaded the ghc package to my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~someone561/+archive/ppa But I don't work on it. I simple backport the debian sid packages. Also there are not the haskell libraries as debs. Maybe this helps you. Stefan Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote: