How to install haskell 8 on ubuntu 16.04

Question

I installed Haskell on ubuntu following the instructions on the Haskell platform website. But I ended up with version 7.10.3. How do I get Haskell 8 on Ubuntu?

Answer 1

I think the de-facto standard for installing Haskell is now using stack.

Here's the official installation instructions.

Answer 2

You can get GHC 8.0.2 from hvr's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~hvr/+archive/ubuntu/ghc

To get the latest GHC run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hvr/ghc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghc-8.0.2

The PPA also contains other tools that you might need such as cabal.

Answer 3

If you don't want to use stack follow these instructions.

Maybe afterwards you want to install the following additional packages:

• alex
• happy
• haddock
• hlint
• pandoc

and more depending what you want to do.

If the library yout intstalle ghc, is in your path, you can the remove haskell-platform.