[xmonad] newbie #2: "could not find module" XMonad.NoBorders, XMonad.Layout.NoBorders, etc.

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Dec 15 14:50:24 EST 2007


vamosaverlas:
> 
> 
> >From Dominik Bruhn:
> > You have to execute the following AS YOUR USER (not as root):
> > 
> > #for xmonad:
> > runhaskell Setup.lhs --user --prefix=${HOME} configure
> > runhaskell Setup.lhs build
> > runhaskell Setup.lhs install
> > 
> > #for XMonadContrib
> > exactly the same as above.
> > 
> > If you do this, Cabal registers the Packages automatically and xmonad
> > should find them.
> 
> 1. The above worked instantly. Thank you.
> 2. (While admitting that the problem could have been something else I did),
>     let me point out that http://xmonad.org/intro.html, which I tried to follow,
>     gives this, with a different order, and no curly braces:
> 
>     $ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME
>     $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build
>     $ runhaskell Setup.lhs install --user
> 
>     (is it wrong?)

Ah ha, yes. that's missing --user for the configure step.
Well spotted.

The docs will update shortly.

-- Don


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