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How to install the latest Haskell platform on debian?

I want to install the latest Haskell platform on my Raspberry Pi.

Unfortunately, my linux-fu is very weak. I can apt-get install haskell-platform , which works as much as possible, but installs a very old version from the official package repository. The part of the code I want to compile only compiles with GHC 7.8.

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As comments are discussed, the experimental package contains the (very) latest ghcs (including ghc release candidates).

You can install packages from there like this:

 apt-get update apt-get -t experimental install packagename

unstable also contains ghcs that are actually released.

And the common Linux binary platform will also work with debian.

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You can get the latest Debian GHC packages from http://deb.haskell.org

Installation instructions here

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