[Haskell-beginners] installing cabal 1.20 on linux mint debian edition (LMDE)

Ovidiu Deac ovidiudeac at gmail.com
Thu May 29 18:58:28 UTC 2014


...and I'm back to the error regarding the shadowing of network  pakage

ovidiu at thinkpad ~ $ cabal install cabal-install
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading cabal-install-1.20.0.2...
Configuring cabal-install-1.20.0.2...
Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same
package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure.
package HTTP-4000.2.8 requires network-2.4.1.2
package cabal-install-1.20.0.2 requires network-2.4.1.2
Building cabal-install-1.20.0.2...
Preprocessing executable 'cabal' for cabal-install-1.20.0.2...
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id
network-2.4.1.2-fc99093587d92370c7febe034504fb40:
    network-2.4.1.2-fc99093587d92370c7febe034504fb40 is shadowed by package
network-2.4.1.2-040cee5ece44014a8574cb3f87b1eec4
    (use -v for more information)
Failed to install cabal-install-1.20.0.2
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
cabal-install-1.20.0.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1



On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Peter Jones <mlists at pmade.com> wrote:

> Ovidiu Deac <ovidiudeac at gmail.com> writes:
> > ovidiu at thinkpad ~ $ cabal update && cabal install cabal
>
> That should be:
>
> $ cabal install cabal-install
>
> Cabal is a library, and cabal-install is the executable.
>
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