Any suggestions on installing the haskell-platform or stack in ubuntu?

Question

I tried to install haskell-platform and I am getting the following unmet dependencies.

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 haskell-platform : Depends: ghc (>= 7.6.3) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: ghc (< 7.6.3+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-async-dev (>= 2.0.1.4) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-async-dev (< 2.0.1.4+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-attoparsec-dev (>= 0.10.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-attoparsec-dev (< 0.10.4.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-case-insensitive-dev (>= 1.0.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-case-insensitive-dev (< 1.1.0.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-cgi-dev (>= 3001.1.8.3) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-cgi-dev (< 3001.1.8.3+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-fgl-dev (>= 5.4.2.4) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-fgl-dev (< 5.4.2.4+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-gluraw-dev (>= 1.3.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-gluraw-dev (< 1.3.0.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-glut-dev (>= 2.4.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-glut-dev (< 2.4.0.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-hashable-dev (>= 1.2.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-hashable-dev (< 1.2.1.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-haskell-src-dev (>= 1.0.1.5) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-haskell-src-dev (< 1.0.1.5+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-html-dev (>= 1.0.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-html-dev (< 1.0.1.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-http-dev (>= 1:4000.2.8) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-http-dev (< 1:4000.2.8+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-hunit-dev (>= 1.2.5.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-hunit-dev (< 1.2.5.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-mtl-dev (>= 2.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-mtl-dev (< 2.1.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-network-dev (>= 2.4.1.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-network-dev (< 2.4.1.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-opengl-dev (>= 2.8.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-opengl-dev (< 2.8.0.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-parallel-dev (>= 3.2.0.3) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-parallel-dev (< 3.2.0.3+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-parsec3-dev (>= 3.1.3) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-parsec3-dev (< 3.1.3+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-primitive-dev (>= 0.5.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-primitive-dev (< 0.5.0.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-quickcheck2-dev (>= 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-quickcheck2-dev (< 2.6+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-base-dev (>= 0.93.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-base-dev (< 0.93.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-compat-dev (>= 0.95.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-compat-dev (< 0.95.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-posix-dev (>= 0.95.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-regex-posix-dev (< 0.95.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-split-dev (>= 0.2.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-split-dev (< 0.2.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-stm-dev (>= 2.4.2) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-stm-dev (< 2.4.2+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-syb-dev (>= 0.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-syb-dev (< 0.4.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-text-dev (>= 0.11.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-text-dev (< 0.11.3.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-transformers-dev (>= 0.3.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-transformers-dev (< 0.3.0.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-unordered-containers-dev (>= 0.2.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-unordered-containers-dev (< 0.2.3.0+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-vector-dev (>= 0.10.0.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-vector-dev (< 0.10.0.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-xhtml-dev (>= 3000.2.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-xhtml-dev (< 3000.2.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-zlib-dev (>= 0.5.4.1) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libghc-zlib-dev (< 0.5.4.1+) but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: ghc-haddock but it is not going to be installed

These dependencies are different from the other questions, here and here , on this site.

Some packages mentioned in the first question are also the ones I have come across so I implemented the solution there. However I couldn't get it to work (the same dependencies kept coming up).

Leaving it aside for a moment I tried installing the haskell stack. However it requires me to install the package libgmp3-dev. I cannot seem to be able to install it using synaptic or sudo apt-get install.

I am looking for any suggestions to installing haskell-platform or failing that ghc compiler on my system. I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

Please feel free to edit my question or request any information. Thank you in advance for your time.