So, a word about the environment I’m going to use. I’m going to do my general hacking in Haskell on Ubuntu 12.04, running on either my MacBook Air or a Nokia Booklet 3G, depending on what’s closer. I’ll be using the haskell-platform installed from the stable debian repository. As I want to push things into a “production” instance, I’m going to be hosting things on Amazon’s EC2 — if I get serious about this project and want to share data, I’ll scale out on EC2.<\/p>\n
Getting Started: Ubuntu on the MacBook Air<\/strong> Getting Started: Ubuntu on the Nokia Booklet 3G<\/strong> Earlier releases of Ubuntu on the Booklet were pesky to set up because of the stupid integrated graphics driver, but that’s been well-documented for some time. Here’s what I did to get things running:<\/p>\n Getting Started: Getting Haskell and Yesod on Ubuntu<\/strong> Getting Started: Getting Haskell and Yesod on EC2<\/strong> To get Yesod running, as your development user: Next up: setting up my first site!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, a word about the environment I’m going to use. I’m going to do my general hacking in Haskell on Ubuntu 12.04, running on either my MacBook Air or a Nokia Booklet 3G, depending on what’s closer. I’ll be using the haskell-platform installed from the stable debian repository. As I want to push things into … Continue reading Before we begin with Haskell & Yesod: the environment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,9,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haskell","category-programming","category-yesod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nInstalling Ubuntu Desktop i386 12.04 on my MacBook Air was a bit of a trial, and I didn’t document all the steps thoroughly. The general approach was to follow the steps at the Ubuntu site here<\/a>, although one thing I did that gave me problems was to create a separate partition on the drive for the installation media, because doing that meant that I couldn’t repartition the disk when I did the install. Eventually, I was able to make a bootable USB stick, boot the USB stick using rEFit, format the new partitions, and I was set. Dual-booting between Ubuntu and Mac OS X using both the built in ssytem and rEFit works great.<\/p>\n
\nI have a special place in my heart for the Nokia Booklet 3G, because the darned thing is indestructible, and sports a 3G modem for anywhere-wireless connectivity. Unfortunately, it feels about as slow as the VAX 11\/70 I shared with sixty university students the week before finals, so it doesn’t get as much love from me as it otherwise might. But I prefer its keyboard over that on the MacBook Air, actually, and the pretty blue cover just looks sweet.<\/p>\n\n
\nsudo lightdm restart<\/code> to get past the black screen.<\/li>\n
\nsudo lightdm restart<\/code> to get past the black screen.<\/li>\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT<\/code> in \/etc\/default\/grub to \"quiet console=tty1 acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux mem=896mb\"<\/code> and update grub using sudo update-grub.<\/li>\nADD_PARAMETERS='-quirk-vbemode-restore'<\/code>.\n<\/ol>\n
\nOnce you’ve got Ubuntu all set up and updated with the latest packages, open a shell and run:
\n
\nsudo apt-get update
\nsudo apt-get install emacs23
\nsudo apt-get install haskell-platform
\nsudo apt-get install haskell-mode
\n<\/code>
\nNow, add $HOME\/.cabal\/bin<\/code> to your path in your .bashrc or the shell configuration of choice, and reload the shell configuration file.
\n
\ncabal update
\ncabal install yesod-platform
\n<\/code>
\nto install yesod. <\/p>\n
\nI couldn’t get a base AMI instance running with a later version of the haskell platform — I chose an instance that was too small and cabal failed to build. Picking a bigger instance, I couldn’t get the Haskell platform to build with the version of ghc that I chose. I then moved to using a RedHat instance backed by ebs, and as root:<\/p>\n
\nyum update
\nyum install gmp-devel
\nrpm -Uvh http:\/\/download.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/6\/i386\/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
\nyum install haskell-platform
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n
\ncabal update
\ncabal install yesod-platform
\n<\/code><\/p>\n