[xmonad] how to install xmonad for group of users.

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

You will need to ask cabal to use a different package database (and  
your users will need to ask their cabal installations to also use that  
database). The simplest way to do this is to simply add "--global" to  
the install line; however, this may not work if you don't have root  
access.

~d

Quoting Imam Toufique <wnyrodeo at yahoo.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to install xmonad (using cabal) for the past week  
> for a group of users and having some issues with it.  When I try to  
> install it for myself it works just fine, but I when I try install  
> it for a group of users, it gives me errors that some  
> packages/modules are missing.  I used the following cabal command:
>
>> cabal install --prefix=$PREFIX --build-log=/tmp/xmonad.log.3 xmonad  
>> (where my prefix is /net/tools/xmonad/0.10
>
> I see the installation there, I can run it myself, but when another  
> user goes about it running it from the same installation, it  
> complains that some packages/modules missing.  I noticed that my  
> installation creates $HOME/.ghc directory where all the packages are  
> registered.  I think therefore, for another user it can't access my  
> $HOME/.ghc and therefore fails.  Is there a way  to tell cabal  
> installer to register the packages in the $PREFIX area?  I am so new  
> to ghc, I tried figuring it out, but I could not.  I think if I can  
> register the packages somewhere in the PREFIX  
> (/net/tools/xmonad/0.10) area, then xmonad running for a different  
> user(s) will be able to access the right packages, and that might  
> fix this issue.
>  
> thanks in advance.