live blog of my experience installing a new programming toolchain. In this case its elm, but nearly every toolchain has this problem
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The elm website has no installer for linux, and recommends I install it from npm or build from the source.
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First I try to figure out how to globally install packages using the npm client on my system (yarn) and after 3 tries find the right answer.
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I've installed elm from npm, but `elm-repl` tells me I don't have libtinfo.so.5. I install libtinfo from AUR, which gives me libtinfo.so.6
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There are comments which tell me libtinfo.so.5 might be in the ncurses5-compat-libs package. This package is out of date, it doesnt build
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So now I'm installing elm through AUR, which wants to install Haskell and a new version of gcc. This is nice, cuz it gives me time to tweet.
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Do they still use raw cabal to build ? That would be the absolute worst 😭... at least stack improves a lot of this.