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by jberryman 4453 days ago
The binary distributions install alongside your system packages or other bindists quite nicely (they might overwrite the /usr/bin/ghc symlink, but that's it) and you can select which ghc version you want to use when using cabal with the `-w` flag. Each will keep a separate package db, etc. So be bold!
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masida 4453 days ago
Thank you for your comment. I've ended up installing 7.8.1 from the binary distributions from the GHC site: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_8_1

As easy as:

  tar -xJvf ghc-7.8.1-i386-unknown-linux-deb7.tar.xz
  cd ghc-7.8.1
  ./configure --prefix=/opt/ghc-7.8.1
  make install
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