installation problems (source)

installation problems (source)

[Uwe Brauer]

hi

As I said in an earlier email I am still using Kubuntu 10.04 (32-bit)
so I cannot use the binaries provided by the pandoc website.

I tried to follow the instructions in
http://pandoc.org/installing.html#installing-from-source

And run


wget
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-1.17.0.3/pandoc-1.17.0.3.tar.gz

I obtained

,----
| --2016-03-30 10:34:33--
| https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-1.17.0.3/pandoc-1.17.0.3.tar.gz
| Resolving hackage.haskell.org... 185.31.18.68 Connecting to
| hackage.haskell.org|185.31.18.68|:443... connected. ERROR: certificate
| common name `j.ssl.fastly.net' doesn't match requested host name
| `hackage.haskell.org'. To connect to hackage.haskell.org insecurely, use
| `--no-check-certificate'.
`----

Ok, the --no-check-certificate option worked.


Now I cannot install stack, so I tried cabal (which I have installed
privately since the cabal version from Kubuntu is attic)
,----
|  cabal-install version 0.8.0
| using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library
`----
the version I have is
,----
| cabal-install version 0.10.2
| using version 1.10.2.0 of the Cabal library
`----
/home/oub/.cabal/bin/cabal update
,----
| Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
| Note: there is a new version of cabal-install available.
| To upgrade, run: cabal install cabal-install
`----
/home/oub/.cabal/bin/cabal install pandoc
,----
| cabal: cannot configure texmath-0.8.6.1. It requires base >=4.5 && <5
| For the dependency on base >=4.5 && <5 there are these packages: base-4.5.0.0,
| base-4.5.1.0, base-4.6.0.0, base-4.6.0.1, base-4.7.0.0, base-4.7.0.1,
| base-4.7.0.2, base-4.8.0.0, base-4.8.1.0 and base-4.8.2.0. However none of
| them are available.
| base-4.5.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.5.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.6.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.6.0.1 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.1 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.2 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.2.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
`----


So I tried

/home/oub/.cabal/bin/cabal install cabal-install




/home/oub/.cabal/bin/cabal install cabal-install
,----
| Resolving dependencies...
| cabal: cannot configure cabal-install-1.22.9.0. It requires base >=4.3 && <5
| For the dependency on base >=4.3 && <5 there are these packages: base-4.3.0.0,
| base-4.3.1.0, base-4.4.0.0, base-4.4.1.0, base-4.5.0.0, base-4.5.1.0,
| base-4.6.0.0, base-4.6.0.1, base-4.7.0.0, base-4.7.0.1, base-4.7.0.2,
| base-4.8.0.0, base-4.8.1.0 and base-4.8.2.0. However none of them are
| available.
| base-4.3.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.3.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.4.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.4.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.5.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.5.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.6.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.6.0.1 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.1 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.7.0.2 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| base-4.8.2.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
| 
| 
`----

Maybe my haskell library is to old, once I was successful doing (thanks
to Michael Thompson

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_4_2 .
 
If you put this in a local directory ~/h and unpack and untar it and
then cd ~/h/ghc... then, supposing everything was just right, you
would do the familiar
 
./configure --prefix=/home/oub/h
make install

so i tried the same with ghc-7.10.3b-src

but I obtained
,----
| checking for gfind... no
| checking for find... /usr/bin/find
| checking for sort... /usr/bin/sort
| checking for GHC Git commit id... given f4e783e6cdcb83592643ad3f726f5d607f78e1e1
| checking for ghc... /usr/bin/ghc
| checking version of ghc... 6.12.1
| configure: error: GHC version 7.6 or later is required to compile GHC.
| 
`----

So which version of GHC should I try to install first?

thanks

Uwe Brauer