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The installation docs for Ubuntu need new instructions for Ubuntu 23.10 #902

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ppp7032 opened this issue Oct 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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ppp7032 commented Oct 14, 2023

The instructions for installing GHCup dependencies on Ubuntu versions >= 20.10 do not work on Ubuntu 23.10. New installation instructions are needed. The relevant output from attempting the installation of the >= 20.10 dependencies on 23.10 is shown below:

Note, selecting 'libffi8' instead of 'libffi8ubuntu1'
E: Unable to locate package libncurses5
E: Unable to locate package libtinfo5
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Well, you need ncurses5 for older GHCs. This is a f*ckup of debian:

They don't seem to care about binary compatibility.

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