Installing Haskell on Ubuntu 12

Question

I skimmed some tutorials about installing Haskell on Ubuntu. They basically told about Ubuntu 11 and mentioned that it took a lot of effort. I found nothing about installing Haskell on Ubuntu 12.

Is there any tutorial or something about how to do it? Is there an installer for Ubuntu 12 x64?

Answer 1

I think

sudo aptitude install haskell-platform

should do the trick.

On second thoughts, if you do not have aptitude installed, you can do the same with

sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

From there, you can access the REPL by invoking ghci from the command line.

Answer 2

On Ubuntu 13.04, I had to do the following and I wanted to install herbalizer haml -> erb converter.

sudo apt-get install ghc6 ghc6-prof ghc6-doc cabal-install
cabal update
cabal install herbalizer
sudo ln ~/.cabal/bin/herbalizer /usr/bin/herbalizer

Answer 3

Well all you need to run Haskell is to install GHCI by typing these commands:

sudo apt-get install ghc-ghci

Now you can run it by writing ghci in your terminal. You can compile your files by the following command once in the ghci prompt:

:load File

Hope this will help