[Haskell-cafe] cabal upgrade

[Svein Ove Aas]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> $ cabal install yi
> Resolving dependencies...
> 'yi-0.4.6.2' is cached.
> Configuring yi-0.4.6.2...
> cabal: alex version >=2.0.1 && <3 is required but it could not be found.
> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> yi-0.4.6.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
> exit: ExitFailure 1
>
> $ cabal install yi-gtk
> Resolving dependencies...
> cabal: cannot configure yi-gtk-0.2.1. It requires sourceview >=0.9.11
> There is no available version of sourceview that satisfies >=0.9.11
>
> Trying cabal upgrade didn't fix it - it still throws the same error.
>
This is because the sourceview package is not on hackage - it's
legacy, non-cabal code and can be found on
http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/

You'll have to install it manually, I'm afraid.