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

[Daniel Schoepe]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:42:13AM +0100, Amy de Buitléir wrote:
> 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

Instead of using Setup.lhs you could just run "cabal install" in the
directory. That way xmonad-contrib will automatically be installed for
your user only, like utf8-string. (It has the same effect as Gwern's
suggestion of using --user).
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