[Haskell-beginners] Problems with the Network package

[Raphael Päbst]

Well it all works now, after unregistering most of the stuff in the
user package list.
And I only have one version of Process registered, so I don't know
what was wrong there. Anyway, it's working now, so I'm happy.

Thanks all for the help!

Raf

On 6/1/11, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2011 12:34:20, Raphael Päbst wrote:
>> Good question. Ghc-pkg list gives me Cabal-1.8.0.6 and 1.10..1.0.
>
> Run
>
> cabal --version
>
> in the command shell, that tells you which version of cabal you have and
> with which version of Cabal it was compiled.
> (However, if the failure while trying to install network-2.3.0.2 was not an
> ambiguous occurrence of closeFdWith, it's not the issue I suspect, and the
> versions are less important [for the moment, at least].)
>
> Anyway, it would be helpful if you ran the cabal install command with
> higher verbosity - not sure if -v is enough, -v2 should be - and post the
> output (to the list, or paste it on hpaste.org or similar and post a link
> to it here).
>
>> Ghc-pkg check tells me that cabal-1.8.0.6 is broken though because of
>> some dependency on Process 1.0.1.5.
>
> Uh oh, have you more than one process package?
> That's bad, because process is one of the core libs, having several of
> those lands you in dependency hell. Hope that there's only one version of
> it in the global package-db and unregister those in the user-db.
>
> ghc-pkg unregister --user process
>
> (perhaps with the exact version if there are several).
> That will probably complain that unregistering process-a.b.c.d will break
> some packages, unregister those too [or, if there are too many, delete the
> whole user-db] until ghc-pkg check doesn't report broken packages anymore,
> then start reinstalling, but watch that cabal doesn't try to reinstall a
> package already registered with ghc; you can check for that with
>
> cabal install foo bar baz quux --dry-run
>
>> It's all a bit of a mystery to me.
>>
>> On 6/1/11, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 11:51:02, Raphael Päbst wrote:
>> >> Thanks for the help. As for packages, Yesod for example fails to
>> >> install because it is trying to install network 2.3.0.2
>
> Try
>
> cabal install --constraint='network==2.3.0.3' yesod
>
> ?
>
>> >
>> > cabal-0.8.* using version 1.8.0.2 of tha Cabal library?
>