[Haskell-beginners] Cannot Install Yi - Haskell 2011.02.0.0

[Daniel Fischer]

On Saturday 26 March 2011 10:33:24, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> 
> Actually I cannot install Yi on mint debian either. Cabal version
> doesn't match.
> 
> I did cabal install cabal-install
> then
> cabal upgrade cabal
> 
> but get this error when trying to install Yi
> 
> Installing library in /home/sayth/.cabal/lib/Cabal-1.10.1.0/ghc-6.12.1
> Registering Cabal-1.10.1.0...
> sayth at homegroup ~ $ cabal install yi
> Resolving dependencies...
> cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.12.1 requires Cabal ==1.8.0.2
> however Cabal-1.8.0.2 was excluded because yi-0.6.3.0 requires Cabal
> ==1.10.*

Yes, the ghc lib requires the Cabal it was built against. You can either 
try installing an earlier version of Yi which works with Cabal-1.8.*
or upgrading to GHC-7 (which comes with Cabal-1.10).