[Haskell-cafe] Really impossible to reinstall `base' using cabal?

[Captain Freako]

Thanks, Daniel.
So, do you have any advice for me, with regard to solving this issue:

Implicit import declaration:
   Could not find module `Prelude':
     Perhaps you haven't installed the "dyn" libraries for package `base'?

?

That is, how do I get the dynamic versions of the `base' package
libraries installed, if not via a `cabal install'?

Thanks,
-db


On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Daniel Fischer
<daniel.is.fischer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2011, 22:32:23, Captain Freako wrote:
>> dbanas at dbanas-eeepc:~$ cabal install base
>>
>> and got this:
>>
>> Resolving dependencies...
>> cabal: internal error: impossible
>>
>> Is it really impossible to use cabal to reinstall `base'?
>
> Fortunately, yes. Reinstalling base is impossible (at least with GHC, might
> be possible with other compilers), so it's good that cabal doesn't even
> try.
>