[xmonad] Cabal install problem

[Brent Yorgey]

The OP was in fact running the cabal-install bootstrap script.  The
strange thing is why the cabal-install bootstrap script was trying to
install the Cabal library.  I don't know the answer though.

-Brent

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 03:49:31PM -0400, wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wrote:
> You should already have the Cabal library installed (it comes with
> GHC, and should not be upgraded -- it is released in tandem with
> changes to GHC's internals). If you are trying to install the "cabal"
> command, the package to get from Hackage is called "cabal-install".
> 
> Sorry about the weird naming, and good luck.
> ~d
> 
> Quoting Tayfur Yilmaz <yilmaz.tayfur at gmail.com>:
> 
> >Hi everyone
> >I have some problem for install 'cabal-install package'  I downloaded and
> >succesfully build a binary source ghc-7.0.2. Then I want to install
> >cabal-0.10.2 and ? see some warning and last output like this
> >Linking Setup ...
> >Configuring Cabal-1.10.1.0...
> >Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> >base >=4 && <3 && >=2 && <5, unix >=2.0 && <2.5
> >
> >Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
> >Configuring the Cabal package failed
> >
> >Then ? want to use cabal-0.8 and output like this
> >Linking Setup ...
> >Configuring Cabal-1.8.0.2...
> >Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> >base >=4 && <3 && >=1 && <5,
> >filepath >=1 && <1.2,
> >unix >=2.1 && <2.5
> >
> >Error during cabal-install bootstrap:
> >Configuring the Cabal package failed
> >
> >So Which compatible versiyon for cabal-install version I use Kde4 on
> >Pardus<http://www.pardus.org.tr/>
> >
> >Best Regards
> >
> 
> 
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