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  <h1>GHCup</h1>
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<p class="ghcup-intro">GHCup is the main installer for the general purpose language <a href="https://www.haskell.org">Haskell</a>.</p>

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      <h3>To install on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD or <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/"> WSL2</a></h3>
      <p>run the following in a terminal (as a non-root user):<p>
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            <span class="ghcup-command" id="ghcup-command-linux">curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://get-ghcup.haskell.org | sh</span>
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      <h3>To install on Windows</h3>
      <p>run the following in a PowerShell session (as a non-admin user):<p>

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          <span class="ghcup-command" id="ghcup-command-windows">Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force;[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; try { Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock ([ScriptBlock]::Create((Invoke-WebRequest https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/sh/bootstrap-haskell.ps1 -UseBasicParsing))) -ArgumentList $true } catch { Write-Error $_ }
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  Need help? Check the <a href="guide/#troubleshooting">Troubleshooting section</a> or ask on
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