template-haskell comes with GHC. If your OS doesn't include it in its GHC package, it should be provided in a separate package. For that matter, the Haskell Pl

template-haskell comes with GHC. If your OS doesn't include it in its GHC package, it should be provided in a separate package. For that matter, the Haskell Platform is hopefully packaged for your OS: install that and don't worry about installing GHC, template-haskell, cabal, etc separately.