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The binary distributions install alongside your system packages or other bindists quite nicely (they might overwrite the /usr/bin/ghc symlink, but that's it) an

The binary distributions install alongside your system packages or other bindists quite nicely (they might overwrite the /usr/bin/ghc symlink, but that's it) and you can select which ghc version you want to use when using cabal with the `-w` flag. Each will keep a separate package db, etc. So be bold!

masida 13y ago
Thank you for your comment. I've ended up installing 7.8.1 from the binary distributions from the GHC site: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_8_1 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_8_1 As easy as: tar -xJvf ghc-7.8.1-i386-unknown-linux-deb7.tar.xz cd ghc-7.8.1 ./configure --prefix=/opt/ghc-7.8.1 make install