Comments on: Installing haskell-platform in Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:20:18 +0000

Following Ken: on an (almost) fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (amd64), the binary ghc6.12 at

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.12.1/ghc-6.12.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2

configured and installed cleanly.

Configuring the Haskell platform revealed the following dependencies:

libgmp3-dev
zlib1g-dev
libglut3-dev

After installing those the rest went smoothly.

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:58:43 +0000

Works with Lucid Lynx as wellsu

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:13:35 +0000

After failing several times on Jaunty, I upgraded to Karmic. To get it working on Karmic, I

1. Downloaded and built (need this to bootstrap haskell-platform) using sudo:

ghc-6.12.1-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.gz

2. Downloaded and built (sudo make install):

haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0.tar.gz

This appeared to work cleanly on my system.

By: Lambdor

Lambdor — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:47:53 +0000

please create a symbolic link to the latest version! this keeps links in tutorial texts up-to-date.

also in Ubuntu 10.04 libglut-dev is libglut3-dev

By: greg

greg — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:13:08 +0000

I needed to install libghc6-parsec3-prof

By: David Carter

David Carter — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:19:00 +0000

Well, I’m defeated. I too get the error reported in comment 3, but the version of Haskell Platform recommended in comment 5 requires GHC 6.12, but the GHC home page says ordinary users shouldn’t use 6.12, but Haskell Platform (with 6.10) instead, and the apt-get commands listed there didn’t upgrade me to 6.12 anyway. Meanwhile I can’t act on comment 4 because trac.haskell.org is down.

I thought the whole point of Haskell Platform was that newbies like me shouldn’t have to battle with version problems. Could this page be upgraded to a complete set of instructions that will work with Koala? Thanks.

By: CBrowne

CBrowne — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 05:50:59 +0000

@3:
The wget package link is outdated, should be:
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0.tar.gz
That will get you the latest haskell package.

By: haskellelephant

haskellelephant — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:31:58 +0000

As of Jan 16 2010, there seem to be a problem with the install.sh … Problem and solution discussed here:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/84

By: Albert Cardona

Albert Cardona — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:45:15 +0000

Thanks for the tips, but it does not work: haskell-platform fails to install with “sudo checkinstall -y”:

Installing GLUT-2.1.1.2…

Error:
The GLUT-2.1.1.2/Setup script does not exist or cannot be run
make: *** [install] Error 2

**** Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Restoring overwritten files from backup…OK

Cleaning up…OK

Bye.

So cabal is never installed.

Help appreciated in fixing this error.

By: llayland

llayland — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:21:53 +0000

I had to comment out the following in build.sh in order to avoid an invalid option error:

# if [ -x ../${CABAL_INSTALL_INPLACE} ]; then
# CABAL_INSTALL_FLAG=”–with-cabal-install=../${CABAL_INSTALL_INPLACE}”
# fi