Haskell Platform for Linux

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Community-supported versions of the Haskell Platform on Linux and Unix
These distributions offer the Haskell Platform in their package repositories. You can easily install the Haskell Platform through your distribution's native package manager.

Ubuntu	Debian	Fedora
Arch Linux	Gentoo	NixOS
OpenBSD	FreeBSD	Mint

Information for other systems

openSUSE

Mandriva

See also: justhub, for REHL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, and Fedora spport

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Build from source

Download the source tarball for Unix-like systems: here

• haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0.tar.gz
  SHA-1: 7976508c50305969f64c721a1d095ae22efff8b7

Get and install GHC 7.4.2 prior to building the platform:

• GHC 7.4.2

Finally, unpack the Haskell Platform source tarball, and run (possibly with 'sudo'):

    ./configure
    make
    make install

You may pass --prefix flag to ./configure to change the default install path.
There is also a README file in the tarball with more detailed information on building.

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Prior releases