[xmonad] Question about using things in xmonad-contrib-bluetilebranch-0.8.1.2

[Gwern Branwen]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Amy de Buitléir<amy at nualeargais.ie> wrote:
>
>> You don't need bluetile for GridSelect, it just isn't included in the
>> released version of xmonad(i.e. it didn't exist at that time). My
>> suggestion is to remove bluetile(it might be possible to have both
>> installed, since bluetile seems to be hidden though) and install the
>> darcs version of xmonad and xmonad-contrib, which contains
>> GridSelect. You can then use it just like any other module.  See the
>> "From darcs" section here: http://xmonad.org/download.html
>>
>
> Thank you for the advice. Installation of the darcs version of Xmonad went
> fine, but I ran into a snag when I tried to install the darcs version of
> XMonadContrib:
>
> darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib
> cd XMonadContrib/
> runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
>
> ...after that last command, I got this message:
>
> Configuring xmonad-contrib-0.8.1...
> Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> utf8-string -any
>
> So I did "cabal install utf8-string", which ran without errors. Then I
> retried "runhaskell Setup.lhs configure" and got the same error. Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Amy

This is usually fixed with 'configure --user'.

-- 
gwern