Looks like a new version of this package needs to be built, but I'm not really maintaining this package. Maybe the debian-haskell list can help?
peace,
isaac
Martin Flack martin@martinflack.com writes:
Hi Isaac,
I'm trying to install the package libghc6-wxhaskell-dev from haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org so I can try writing some simple Haskell programs on my Ubuntu Dapper desktop.
Unfortunately I receive this error: The following packages have unmet dependencies. libghc6-wxhaskell-dev: Depends: ghc6 (< 6.2.3) but 6.4.1-2ubuntu2 is to be installed
Also the ghc package on the same repo seems to be 6.4.1-1 so I'm not sure what to do. Do I have to find a 6.2.3 package and downgrade or is there an update to libghc6-wxhaskell-dev available somewhere?
I tried compiling the source but I get C++ errors. I'd rather figure it out on a package level though.
Thank you very much for any help you can give!
Cheers, Martin Flack
I hacked up a package not too long ago. I just dumped it into
http://andrew.pimlott.net/tmp/wxhaskell/
However, it was built with ghc 6.4.1, and I noticed 6.4.2 just entered unstable. So I guess you can either hold that package or recompile. The source isn't properly packaged, but wxhaskell-0.9.4 is the Debian tree and wxhaskell-0.9.4.orig is the upstream tree. I don't really know how to create Debian packages properly, and I meant to get around to learning, but haven't yet. Maybe it's useful nonetheless. If I get time, I'll try to clean it up and do it right.
BTW, if I recall right, an issue with this package is that it should be built against a wxwidgets configured with --disable-unicode. The Debian wxwidgets of course isn't built this way. I didn't feel like building my own wxwidgets too, so I recklessly ignored this issue, no doubt inviting chaos if any unicode characters are used. But it seems to work fine here in ascii land.
Andrew
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 02:59:02PM -0700, Isaac Jones wrote:
Looks like a new version of this package needs to be built, but I'm not really maintaining this package. Maybe the debian-haskell list can help?
peace,
isaac
Martin Flack martin@martinflack.com writes:
Hi Isaac,
I'm trying to install the package libghc6-wxhaskell-dev from haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org so I can try writing some simple Haskell programs on my Ubuntu Dapper desktop.
Unfortunately I receive this error: The following packages have unmet dependencies. libghc6-wxhaskell-dev: Depends: ghc6 (< 6.2.3) but 6.4.1-2ubuntu2 is to be installed
Also the ghc package on the same repo seems to be 6.4.1-1 so I'm not sure what to do. Do I have to find a 6.2.3 package and downgrade or is there an update to libghc6-wxhaskell-dev available somewhere?
I tried compiling the source but I get C++ errors. I'd rather figure it out on a package level though.
Thank you very much for any help you can give!
Cheers, Martin Flack
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Andrew - thanks for this temporary solution. It works for me.
Martin
On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 00:29 -0700, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
I hacked up a package not too long ago. I just dumped it into
http://andrew.pimlott.net/tmp/wxhaskell/
However, it was built with ghc 6.4.1, and I noticed 6.4.2 just entered unstable. So I guess you can either hold that package or recompile. The source isn't properly packaged, but wxhaskell-0.9.4 is the Debian tree and wxhaskell-0.9.4.orig is the upstream tree. I don't really know how to create Debian packages properly, and I meant to get around to learning, but haven't yet. Maybe it's useful nonetheless. If I get time, I'll try to clean it up and do it right.
BTW, if I recall right, an issue with this package is that it should be built against a wxwidgets configured with --disable-unicode. The Debian wxwidgets of course isn't built this way. I didn't feel like building my own wxwidgets too, so I recklessly ignored this issue, no doubt inviting chaos if any unicode characters are used. But it seems to work fine here in ascii land.
Andrew
I upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy and my wxhaskell stopped working. ;-(
"ghci -package wx balls.hs" gives me: ghc-6.6: unknown package: wx
Probably a result of ghc version bumping in edgy (?).
Could anyone advise me on how to get wxHaskell working on Ubuntu Edgy, preferably by package?
I've still got libghc6-wxhaskell0.8 installed*; it just seems to have no effect any more.
* From this sources.list line: deb http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386 . unstable testing stable
Thanks for the help, Martin
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