[Haskell-beginners] Beginners Digest, Vol 80, Issue 39

Gregory Guthrie guthrie at mum.edu
Wed Feb 18 17:22:10 UTC 2015


Thank you for the clarification; I should not have included that example - but the issue is with the other names that should work as in the same example below; 
   "import Diagrams.Prelude", import Diagrams.Backend.SVG.CmdLine, etc.

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> I installed diagrams, and it seems to be there, but GHCi doesn't find it. I tried adding the
> local sandbox to the command line (-package-db),  but still no luck Any suggestions?
> 
>    C:\Users\guthrie>
>    C:\Users\guthrie>cabal install diagrams
>     Resolving dependencies...
>     All the requested packages are already installed:
>    diagrams-1.2
>    Use --reinstall if you want to reinstall anyway.
> 
> I find it in:
>    C:\Users\guthrie\.cabal-sandbox\i386-windows-ghc-7.6.3-packages.conf.d
   (and C:\Users\guthrie\.cabal-sandbox\i386-windows-ghc-7.6.3 )
>         (diagrams-1.2, diagrams-contrib, -core, -lib, -svg)
> 
> But running: "cabal repl" or using the GHC(i) flag "-package-db=...(as above)..."
> fail to find it:
> 
>     C:\Users\guthrie>cabal repl
>     GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>     Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
>     Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
>     Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>     Prelude> :m + Diagrams.Prelude
> 
>     <no location info>:
>         Could not find module `Diagrams.Prelude'
>        It is not a module in the current program, or in any known package.
>     Prelude>
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