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Now way to install from source at Ubuntu #306

Closed andreas-roehler closed 6 years ago

andreas-roehler commented 6 years ago

$ uname -a -> Linux myname 4.4.0-128-generic #154-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 25 14:15:18 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Did cabal update

and tried haskell-platform for ubuntu https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html#linux-ubunt from source:

./platform.sh

*** Building hptool

cabal: unrecognised command: new-build (try --help)

Tried building GHC from source:

in dir ghc-8.4.3/

./configure checking for gfind... no checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort checking for GHC Git commit id... given 51abb1c88b53e2989a2a8c2939ac4abc04bef194 checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc checking version of ghc... 7.10.3 configure: error: GHC version 8.0 or later is required to compile GHC.

Meanwhile built which help of an auxiliary package that way: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hvr/ghc sudo apt update sudo apt install ghc-8.0.2 cabal-install-1.24

However think it should be possible resp. get recipes from here. Cheers, Andreas

gbaz commented 6 years ago

Why are you trying to install from source? We provide precompiled binaries.

On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:11 AM Andreas Röhler notifications@github.com wrote:

$ uname -a -> Linux myname 4.4.0-128-generic #154 https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/154-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 25 14:15:18 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Did cabal update

and tried haskell-platform for ubuntu https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html#linux-ubunt from source:

./platform.sh

*** Building hptool

cabal: unrecognised command: new-build (try --help)

Tried building GHC from source:

in dir ghc-8.4.3/

./configure checking for gfind... no checking for find... /usr/bin/find checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort checking for GHC Git commit id... given 51abb1c88b53e2989a2a8c2939ac4abc04bef194 checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc checking version of ghc... 7.10.3 configure: error: GHC version 8.0 or later is required to compile GHC.

Meanwhile built which help of an auxiliary package that way: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hvr/ghc sudo apt update sudo apt install ghc-8.0.2 cabal-install-1.24

However think it should be possible resp. get recipes from here. Cheers, Andreas

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andreas-roehler commented 6 years ago

Well, why looking into sources might be of intereset? That's a big matter to discuss. BTW link mentioned in Ubuntu link broken #305 sent me back to apt-get. Which delivers packages by distributor, too far behind current development.

May you point me to the binaries? Didn't see the link when looking at https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html#linux-source

gbaz commented 6 years ago

The binaries are the "generic" builds: https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html#linux-generic

Arguably we should improve the website to steer people from the source, which is used to build distributions, and isn't for general usage...

andreas-roehler commented 6 years ago

Link to Generic seems broken. It's in yellow bold, but not reaction from cursor. While the source-link works.

gbaz commented 6 years ago

I just tested and they work.

You can download directly from https://downloads.haskell.org/~platform/8.4.2/ if you prefer.

andreas-roehler commented 6 years ago

Yeah, sorry. Expected the last bold word Generic to provide the link. But it's the first picture, which works.