[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2

[Don Stewart]

daniel.is.fischer:
> Am Sonntag 05 April 2009 10:24:25 schrieb Ashley Yakeley:
> > Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > In the mean time you can just:
> > >
> > > $ cabal install time
> >
> > Where do I get the "cabal" command? I'm installing GHC on a new machine
> > and I was hoping it would be included. I can't obtain it via "cabal
> > install cabal-install" because I don't have the cabal command and I
> > don't know how to tie the knot in this case.
> 
> Download the cabal-install .tar.gz from Hackage, unpack it.
> There's a script bootstrap.sh in the directory, run that, it wgets zlib and HTTP and 
> installs them, after that, it installs cabal-install and you're ready to go.
> If you're on windows, there's a cabal binary installer somewhere (should be 
> findable from the cabal homepage, I believe).
> _______________________________________________

There are binaries of the 'cabal' command on many distros too. 

--  Don