Installing Haskell to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
27 November 2010I don't normally draw packages from EPEL, because some of them have conflicted with packages from other repositories that I use. But packages for Haskell on RHEL can be found there, and I haven't found working .RPM
s elswehere. On the assumption that one is going to use those EPEL packages, gmp-devel
, which is available from RHN, must be installed. To do so, as root, enter
yum install gmp-devel
There are at least a couple of ways to fetch and install the EPEL packages for Haskell. I think that the easiest is to use yum
. As root, creäte a file
/etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
with contents [epel]
name=RHEL 6 - epel - $releasever - $basearch
baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/6/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
priority=1
exclude=*release
Then as root enter yum install haskell-platform
(After that, as root I delete that .repo
file rm /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
so as not to have those previously mentioned conflicts with packages from other repositories.)
Thanks, this worked for me on Red Hat by changing the 6's to 7's.
Thank you for reporting that. (I have migrated to Fedora, and allowed my Red Hat license to lapse.)