[Haskell-beginners] trying to install libraries for Haskell School of Expression

[DJ]

Thanks for the help, guys.

Life is short. I have spent the better part of two days trying to get 
soegtk to install. No luck. Same shit as when I left haskell behind two 
years ago.

I'm out.

- DJ -


On 15-02-28 11:40 PM, DJ wrote:
> Trying to install the package soegtk.
>
> I am running linux mint 17 with the latest (as of Feb. 28) haskell 
> platform and cabal-install.
>
> I did install gtk2hs-buildtools and put the .cabal/bin in my path.
>
> Cannot install soegtk:
>
> Failed to install glib-0.12.5.4
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> cairo-0.12.5.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> gio-0.12.5.3 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install.
> glib-0.12.5.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> ExitFailure 1
> gtk-0.12.5.7 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install.
> pango-0.12.5.3 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install.
> soegtk-0.12.1 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install.
>
> Confession: I abandoned Haskell two years ago because of frustration 
> with cabal and hackage. I decided to get back to the language today, 
> and to start with Haskell School of Expression. I immediately run into 
> the problem that the first thing I try to install with cabal does not 
> work.
>
> Thanks for any help. Please tell me things are not just as bad now as 
> they were when I left ;-)
>
> - DJP -
>
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