[Haskell-cafe] Re: cabal update : getHostByName

[PéterDiviánszky]

Hi,

> Now, when I enter "cabal update", it answers this:
> 
> Downloading package list from server
> 'http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive'
> cabal: getHostByName: does not exist (no such host entry)

I received the same error message.
After a month I realized that my proxy settings were wrong.
(I don't need proxy but the 'http_proxy' variable was present in the shell
environment.)

Peter