[xmonad] Issue 600 in xmonad: conflicting install instructions

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Comment #2 on issue 600 by Ian... at gmail.com: conflicting install  
instructions
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=600

Having different ways of installing is great. There is just a little  
confusing inconsistency going on. And I actually wasn't super clear in my  
bug.

Let me clarify. Background: http://xmonad.org/download.html is where users  
are funneled from the main page, it appears to overview the install  
methods, and leads users on to  http://xmonad.org/intro.html which appears  
to be the complete documentation on install.

1. download.html says "After you've downloaded, follow the install  
instructions (link to intro.html)", then on intro.html, the tarbal you  
downloaded is never mentioned. So either remove the mention of downloading  
manually from hackage, or have an  instruction which involves  
xmonad-<version>.tar.gz on intro.html. I still don't know how you would  
install the tarball. cabal install xmonad-<version>.tar.gz? The download  
link on hackage is not the easiest to find (at the bottom of the page), so  
I'd prefer steering people to the simpler cabal install <name> method.

2. intro.html should mention the "cabal install  
http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/xmonad.tar.gz" method which was first  
mentioned on the download.html page or else it's confusing (this first page  
said I could do this, and now this other page looks like it's meant to  
cover everything, but it doesn't say I can do this).

If this makes sense, I can write a patch and do a PR on github.

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