[Haskell-cafe] Building fresh cabal-install on raspberry-pi

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 15:59:05 UTC 2014


indeed, as tom says, never nuke ~/.cabal, just ~/.ghc (because thats always
safe)

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Tom Ellis <
tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:49:15PM +1300, Chris Wong wrote:
> > You're experiencing a phenomenon commonly known as "dependency hell".
> > The usual and most straightforward solution is to nuke ~/.cabal and
> > ~/.ghc and reinstall.
>
> YMMV but I've always had good results just deleting .ghc and leaving .cabal
> alone.  (I have GHC and Cabal install globally by my Debian distribution
> package manager, if that makes any difference.)
>
> Tom
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