[Haskell-cafe] confusion about cabal-install install

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Solla <alex.solla at gmail.com>wrote:

> But now consider:
>
>     $ cabal --version
>
>     cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
>
>     using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library
>
>     $ which cabal
>
>     /home/ajs/.cabal/bin/cabal
>
>     $ /home/ajs/.cabal/bin/cabal --version
>
>     cabal-install version 1.20.0.1
>
>     using version 1.20.0.0 of the Cabal library
>
This is why I keep, completely pointlessly, telling people to never ever
use `which`. It lies. But people want the lies and get confused when they
prove to be lies.

Try `type cabal` --- NOT `which cabal` --- to see what is really going on.
Then use `hash -r` to fix it.

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