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Discuss ghcup in tutorial installation instructions

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The instructions as written will not work on Ubuntu systems,
which provide an extremely out-of-date Haskell toolchain.

Addresses issue https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant/issues/1540

https://github.com/haskell-servant/servant/issues/1540
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`Nix <https://nixos.org/nix/>`_ users should feel free to take a look at
the `nix/shell.nix` file in the repository and use it to provision a suitable
environment to build and run the examples.
Note for Ubuntu users
--------
Ubuntu's packages for `ghc`, `cabal`, and `stack` are years out of date.
If the instructions above fail for you,
try replacing the Ubuntu packages with up-to-date versions.
First remove the installed versions:
.. code-block:: bash
# remove the obsolete versions
$ sudo apt remove ghc haskell-stack cabal-install
Then install fresh versions of the Haskell toolchain
using the `ghcup <https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/install/>`_ installer.
As of February 2022, one easy way to do this is by running a bootstrap script:
.. code-block:: bash
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://get-ghcup.haskell.org | sh
The script is interactive and will prompt you for details about what
you want installed and where. To install manually,
see `the detailed instructions <https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/install/#manual-install>`_.