[Haskell-beginners] Cabal not detecting foreign libraries

[Daniel Fischer]

Am Mittwoch 17 Juni 2009 18:13:06 schrieb aditya siram:
> Hi all,
>  I am trying to install vacuum-cairo and leksah. For both these packages
> cabal complains that "gtk", "gtksourceview", "svgcairo" etc are not found.
> They are definetely installed on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron box. Where is Cabal
> looking?
>
> thanks ...
> -deech

What's the exact error message?
These are all subpackages of gtk2hs, so doesn't cabal find the haskell packages of these 
names or the C(++) libraries?
I f the haskell packages are not found, that means you haven't installed gtk2hs for your 
most recent ghc.