[Haskell-cafe] Trying to install cabal

[Don Stewart]

eeoam:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have downloaded cabal and am trying to install it but have gotten the
> following error message:
> 
> C:\cabal\cabal-install-0.5.1>runghc Setup configure
> Configuring cabal-install-0.5.1...
> Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing
>    Cabal >=1.4&&<1.5, HTTP >=3000&&<3002, zlib >=0.4
> 
> I'm not sure from this message what packages I need to install to get
> cabal up and running. Can anyone help?

All Haskell packages of good repute live on hackage.haskell.org.

    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/Cabal
    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP
    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/zlib