Installing Idris from source

Idris is a functional programming language with Dependent Types. To install it on my system running DragonFly BSD, the following steps are neccessary.

Install cabal as root user:

pkg ins hs-cabal-install

Then as regular user, type:

mkdir idris-build
cd idris-build
cabal sandbox init
cabal update
cabal install idris

From within the idris-build folder you can then start Idris by executing:

.cabal-sandbox/bin/idris

And voila, Idris is up and running:

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Idris is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.            
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