Installing a Haskell Development Environment on Ubuntu

This is the setup I'll be using to learn Haskell and also Yesod Web Sites.

haskell-platform is a package found on some Ubuntu distributions (13.10 has it and some other releases too)

$ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

After this, use cabal command that's been installed along with the package to install yesod-platform ( cabal update may take an awful long time, be advised )

$ sudo cabal update 
$ sudo cabal install yesod-platform

Add ~/.cabal/bin to your path:

$ echo "PATH=$PATH:~/.cabal/bin" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc