{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/61","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/61/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/61/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/61/events","html_url":"https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-platform/issues/61","id":103114858,"number":61,"title":"installation:  nixos","user":{"login":"bburdette","id":157330,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/157330?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette","html_url":"https://github.com/bburdette","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bburdette/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-08-25T20:53:48Z","updated_at":"2015-08-25T20:53:48Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I recently installed elm on nixos.  Currently on nixos there are a couple of elm related packages available (which I don't quite remember), but not elm-repl or the other stuff that comes with the elm-platform.  \r\n\r\nA while back I tried the npm install method on nixos, but I had trouble.  One issue there, perhaps, is that global npm installation is not possible on nixos, only local.  At any rate I don't remember what the problem was, exactly.  \r\n\r\nThis time, I decided to install from source.  I initially built version 0.15.  However, I had problems with the elm-architecture tutorial project.  On the email list it was suggested that elm-architecture requires 0.15.1.  \r\n\r\nInstalling 0.15.1 resulted in package conflicts with ghc 7.8.4 and with 7.10.2, I tried both compiler versions.  this was with the \"runhaskell BuildFromSource.hs 0.15.1\" method.  I blew away my ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal directories several times during these attempts, as well as the \"0.15.1\" directory.  \r\n\r\nGoing back to 7.8.4, I was again able to compile elm 0.15 again.  Now my approach will be to find a version of the elm-architecture project that works with 0.15, and just try working with 0.15 for a while. \r\n\r\n"}}