[Haskell-beginners] can't install hackage package

Emmanuel Touzery etouzery at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 21:50:21 CET 2013


it's ghc 7.4.1 that came with fedora.

yes i wiped ~/.ghc and ~/.cabal and it's still the same problem.

i didn't know those cabal flags.
i see some infos in the log, maybe i can even figure it by myself now:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22600720/rex-fail.txt




On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Andres Löh <andres.loeh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> >  I've been using this hackage package "rex" without problems on two
> > computers (linux, windows) but now I fail setting it up on a third
> computer
> > which confuses me, and the error message is not really enlightening for
> me:
> >
> > $ cabal update
> > Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
> > $ cabal --version
> > cabal-install version 1.16.0.2
> > using version 1.16.0.3 of the Cabal library
> >  $ cabal install rex
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
> > trying: rex-0.3.1
>
> That's a bad error message indeed ;)
>
> What's your GHC version? Is this an otherwise clean package database?
> Can you post the output of "cabal install rex --dry-run -v3"? If the
> log is too long to attach to a mailing list mail, just mail it to me
> personally.
>
> Cheers,
>   Andres
>
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