[Haskell-cafe] cabal-install question

[Svein Ove Aas]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:37 PM, Ken98 <sellerk01 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I recently started using cabal-install to install packages. However,
> ran into a problem today trying to install ftphs where the current HUnit
> dependency required base (==4). I'm using ghc-6.8.2 on ubuntu.
>
Right, that's the 6.10 version of base.

> So my question is, could I have used cabal install to specify the specific
> version of HUnit without having to do the manual
> download/configure/build/install?
>
Yes, you should be able to say "cabal install HUnit-1.2.0.0" or so.