[Haskell-cafe] Hint & Cabal Install weirdness.

[Joseph Fredette]

Unregistering and then reinstalling the packages it broke seems to have 
fixed it, Thanks Dan!

/Joe

Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Montag, 2. März 2009 05:24 schrieb Joseph Fredette:
>   
>> I'm attempting to install hint, I started by doing:
>>
>> cabal install hint
>>
>> and it gives me the following error:
>>
>> cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires process ==1.0.1.1 however
>> process-1.0.1.1 was excluded because ghc-6.10.1 requires process ==1.0.1.0
>>
>>     
>
> That seems to be *the* most frequent problem this year.
>
> Duncan Coutts explained the matter in 
> http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-January/054523.html
>
> Hopefully one of the process packages is in the user db, if both are in the 
> global db, it might be necessary to reinstall ghc.
>
>   
>> So I decided to try installing it via darcs, expecting to either have it
>> work, or boil it down to one or two dependencies that were causing the
>> problem, my hunch was right, it boils down to the ghc-mtl package,
>> leading to the same error as above. My question is, how can I fix this?
>> Doing a ghc-pkg hide on either process package breaks Cabal and Haddock
>> (among others) according to the error message, and even after that
>> happens, cabal complains about needing ghc >= 6.6 (or 6.8, depending on
>> which package I disable), even though I have ghc 6.10.
>>
>> Detailed system info follows, help me haskell-cafe-kenobi(s), you're
>> (all) my only hope(s)!
>>
>> Sysinfo:
>>
>> Arch Linux: uname -a gives:
>> Linux Erdos 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 2 22:22:59 UTC 2009 i686
>> Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>>
>> ghc --version gives:
>> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 6.10.1
>>
>> cabal --version:
>> cabal-install version 0.6.0
>> using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> /Joe
>>     
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