[xmonad] Problem in Installing xmonad

[Don Stewart]

astsmtl:
> В Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:11:16 +0600
> Nikitin Lev <nlv at lab321.ru> пишет:
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I'm trying install xmonad (0.4.1).
> > I use debian linux 4.0 r1
> > I've installed new version of ghc: 6.8.1, version of X11 is 1.3.0.
> > When I configure xmonad (runhaskell Setup.lhs configure) I get error:
> > 
> > -------------------
> > XMonad.hs:42:17:
> >     Could not find module `Data.Set':
> >       it is a member of package containers-0.1.0.0, which is hidden
> > -------------------
> 
> I can confirm this problem on Source Mage. Recently i had
> updated ghc to 6.8.1 and xmonad to 0.4.1. On one box everything worked
> fine, but on another i've got the same problem. I tried to hide/expose
> containers with ghc-pkg, but it didn't helped.

You'll need to update the .cabal file, or use the xmonad 0.5 (darcs)
branch. Ghc 6.8, with the base package split up, happened just after
0.4.1 came out.

See this faq,

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Frequently_asked_questions#Building_xmonad_0.4.x_with_GHC_6.8

Cheers,
    Don