[Haskell-cafe] Leksah Install Issue (cabal experts please help)

[Hamish Mackenzie]

On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:56, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:

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> On 13 Mar 2012, at 16:51, Hamish Mackenzie wrote:
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>> On 13 Mar 2012, at 15:56, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>>>> Even if you "cabal unpack" and then modify the .cabal file and run "cabal install" it still fails with the same error.
>>> 
>>> How did you modify it?  Did you change the "cabal-version" field as well?
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>> I changed cabal-version and removed the test-suites.  I think it must be looking at all the available versions of the package (in hackage).
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>>>> If you can think of a better solution than asking users to install GHC 7.0.4 or 7.4.1 to build cabal-install, then please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Just build a newer version of cabal-install based upon Cabal-1.10 ?
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>> 
>> I just tried this and it works...
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>> cabal install Cabal-1.10.0.2
>> cabal install cabal-install
>> cabal install leksah-server
>> 
>> Thanks Ivan
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> Oops transposed the last two parts of the version number.  It should should have read...
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> cabal install Cabal-1.10.2.0
> cabal install cabal-install
> cabal install leksah-server

This also works...
cabal install --constrain='Cabal>=1.10.2' cabal-install
cabal install leksah-server