pandoc-centos6.md

How to install pandoc from source on CentOS 6.x

• Make a directory for the Haskell installation, I like to use /opt/haskell:

  $ sudo mkdir /opt/haskell
  $ sudo chown $USER /opt/haskell
  

• Install GHC 7.6.3.

  Download the x86_64 binary distribution, unpack it, and install with:

  $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/haskell
  $ make install
  

  Make sure ghc is in the PATH for the following steps:

  $ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/haskell/bin
  

• Install the Haskell Platform.

  Install dependencies:

  $ sudo yum install gmp-devel zlib-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
    mesa-libGLU-devel freeglut-devel
  

  Download the source tarball, unpack it, and install with:

  $ ./configure --prefix=/opt/haskell
  $ make
  $ make install
  

  This finishes the system-wide installation:

  $ sudo chown -Rh root:root /opt/haskell
  

• You can now (as a regular user), run

  $ cabal update
  $ cabal install pandoc
  

  After this the pandoc executable can be found at ~/.cabal/bin/pandoc.