Installation and Compiling Haskell on Ubuntu 13.10

First you should check the universe repository

 sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list  and add

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu saucy main universe

 line in sources.list if it is not in this file.

Then update : sudo apt-get update

Last install haskell :

sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

Now we try to write first haskell program and build it.


Firstly open a text editor and write

 main = putStrLn "Hello, World!"

Then save as first.hs  In terminal give command like this : ghc -o hello first.hs then ./hello

Welcome the Functional Programming World and Haskell.