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

[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 7:
>
> 
> http://lambda.galois.com/hp-tmp/2011.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2011.2.0.1.tar.gz
> [5]
>  
> http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.3/ghc-7.0.3-i386-unknown-linux.tar.bz2
> [6]
>
>  Extract ghc, change into the directory, run configure, then make
> install as root.
>  After that, extract the haskell platform, change into the directory,
> configure, make, make install as root.
>  Then run cabal update.
>
>  The haskell platform is broken on Natty.
>  
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/haskell-platform/+bug/742052
> [7]
>


 Adrien