Installing the Haskell Platform in Ubuntu

Installing the Haskell Platform in Ubuntu

First things first, lets get the dependencies out of the way.

1	sudo apt-get install libedit2 libedit-dev freeglut3-dev libglu1-mesa-dev

Now let’s remove any haskell packages we may have installed, as these will cause conflicts.

1	sudo apt-get autoremove ghc6

Note that if you installed cabal as per my previous post, you can remove the executable from your $PATH by executing the following:

1	sudo rm /usr/local/sbin/cabal

This will not delete the executable, which is stored in $HOME/.cabal/bin/. This just removes the sym-link that was in your $PATH. Next, lets grab the source for GHC 6.10.3 (which is required to build the Haskell Platform)

1	wget http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.3/ghc-6.10.3-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2

and untar it.

1	tar -xvvf http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.3/ghc-6.10.3-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2

next, lets configure it and build it:

1	cd ghc-6.10.3/

2	./configure

3	sudo make install

After this, installing the Haskell Platform is just more of the same:

01	#grab the tarball

02	wget http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2009.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1.tar.gz

03

04	# untar it

05	tar -xvvf http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2009.2.0.1/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1.tar.gz

06

07

08	# ... and install it.

09	cd haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1/

10	./configure

11

make

12	sudo make install

Along the way, the install scripts for the Haskell Platform will give you prompts for the next step to take.
Enjoy your Haskell Platform, and happy developing!