ghc7.10 on AUR( Arch User Repository.)

Last updated: July 14,2022

1. Install ghc7.10 via UAR with a Helper - YAY

a. Install YAY (https://github.com/Jguer/yay)


         pacman -S --needed git base-devel 

         git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git 

         cd yay 

         makepkg -si

b. Install ghc7.10 on Arch using YAY


         yay -S ghc7.10

c. Remove ghc7.10 on Arch using YAY


         yay -Rns ghc7.10

2. Install ghc7.10 via UAR manually

a. Ensure you have the base development tools and git installed with:


         sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

b. Clone ghc7.10's git locally


         git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/ghc7.10.git ~/ghc7.10

c. Go to ~/ghc7.10 folder and install it


      cd ~/ghc7.10 

      makepkg -si

3. Details of ghc7.10 package

ID: 315199 
Name: ghc7.10 
PackageBaseID: 112695 
PackageBase: ghc7.10 
Version: 7.10.3-1 
Description: Legacy GHC (7.10 series). Originally released on December 2015. 
URL: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ 
NumVotes: 1 
Popularity: 0 
OutOfDate:  
Maintainer: rudy.matela 
FirstSubmitted: 1466534582 
LastModified: 1466534583 
URLPath: /cgit/aur.git/snapshot/ghc7.10.tar.gz 