[Haskell-beginners] cabal install

[Andres Löh]

Hi.

> After doing whatever it wants to do, successfully (at least that's what I
> think the logs say; I didn't notice any error) I update my path to:
>     export PATH=/home/.../.cabal/bin:$PATH
>
> Everything is "OK" now! But I still don't have a cabal-install binary, and
> this update has been performed only for me (inside my user account)!
>
> Shouldn't I have a binary cabal-install to run?

The binary is called "cabal", not "cabal-install". You should be able
to check whether the new version is being used by saying "cabal
--version".

> How can I update globally? (for all users of the system!)

By saying something like "sudo cabal install --global cabal-install".

Cheers,
  Andres