cabal: : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

[Thomas Hartman]

cabal -v3 update

will give you a more verbose version of what is going wrong.

cabal --help

regrettably, cabal --help doesn't tell you this but there is always
the man page I suppose.

2009/7/16 Tony Hannan <tonyhannan2 at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I'm on Ubuntu 8.10.
> I installed ghc 6.10.4 (from binary package:
> ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2).
> I installed haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 (from source package:
> haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1.tar.gz). It contains cabal-install-0.6.2.
>
> Then when I run "cabal update", I get the following error:
> cabal:  : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
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