Installing GHC under the home directory

install-ghc.md

Installing GHC under the home directory

1. Install stack.
2. Run stack setup as a normal user. This will install GHC for you (under ~/.stack).
3. Run stack ghci to start ghci. Please see the rest of the page linked above on how to use stack to create and build projects.

z-install-ghc-old.md

The old instructions: Installing GHC and Cabal under the home directory

1. Install libgmp-dev or equivalent using the system package manager.
2. Add export PATH="$HOME/.ghc/bin:$HOME/.cabal/bin:$HOME/.cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH" to your .profile/.zprofile.
3. Also run the command above now.
4. Get the GHC binary tarball and extract it.
5. ./configure --prefix="$HOME/.ghc" && make install
6. Get the cabal-install source tarball and extract it.
7. EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS=-p sh bootstrap.sh
8. cabal update
9. Add library-profiling: True and documentation: True to ~/.cabal/config.
   • Add require-sandbox: True if you want to prevent accidental installation of packages outside a sandbox.

Purging both from the system

1. rm -fr ~/.ghc ~/.cabal
2. Remove the export PATH… line from your .*profile.