Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Installing GHC 6.10.4 on webfaction

It was surprisingly easy!

Install the generic Haskell 6.10.4 package from http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_10_4.html#x86linux
  1. wget http://haskell.org/ghc/dist/6.10.4/ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2
  2. bunzip2 ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2
  3. tar -xvf ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar
  4. cd ghc-6.10.4
  5. ./configure --prefix=$HOME/applications
  6. make install
Proceeded smoothly.

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