[Haskell-cafe] How to update Cabal manually?

[James M]

Check your PATH environment variable and make sure that the directory it is
installed in appears first in the list.

I believe the default installation directory for OS X is:

~/Library/Haskell/bin

To have OS X use the latest cabal (without overwriting anything), you can
do something like this in your login script (default login script is
.bash_profile):

export PATH=$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin:$PATH

James

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown.the at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "cabal install cabal-install" is not working for me. I am not the first to
> find this problem; it is mentioned here
> <https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/Survival>:
>
> "Notice, that in some cases (OS X, especially) the new cabal-install might
> not be installed on top of the previous one, and the old cabal-install must
> be replaced manually"
>
> I don't know how to manually replace Cabal. The closest thing I could find
> to instructions for that were here
> <https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-February/073526.html>,
> but I don't understand them.
>
> The Haskell Platform installer is what installed Cabal for me. I have not
> found how to undo that, nor how to install Cabal in any other fashion.
> Running the Haskell Platform installer again seems dangerous, potentially
> conflicting with its earlier work.
>
> A likely unnecessary shell transcript demonstrating the problem appears
> below.
>
> I am running OS X 10.9 on a MacBook Pro, of which the decision to purchase
> I regret more daily.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -----
>
> When I try to update cabal, it looks like it works:
>
> jefferys-mbp:~ jbb$ cabal install cabal-install
> Resolving dependencies...
> Configuring cabal-install-1.20.0.3...
> Building cabal-install-1.20.0.3...
> Installed cabal-install-1.20.0.3
> Updating documentation index
> /Users/jbb/Library/Haskell/share/doc/index.html
>
> But the version number exhibits no change:
>
> jefferys-mbp:~ jbb$ cabal --version
> cabal-install version 1.18.0.5
> using version 1.18.1.4 of the Cabal library
>
>
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