Re: [Haskell-beginners] cabal install errors & issues

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Antoine Latter wrote:

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Really, the platform comes with everything that cabal-dev depends on, so it might be easier to solve whatever error message you're getting without the '--force' flag.

Unfortunately I'm seeing the same thing, but on OS X (Lion): "cabal install cabal-dev", with no local packages, wants to reinstall/break a bunch of Platform libraries.

Ug. I have a weird franken-install on my end, so "cabal install cabal-dev" (or even just a "cabal unpack" "cabal configure") works cleanly for me. Maybe you could file a ticket with "cabal-dev" to ask what you need to do to install on a fresh platform install, or ask on haskell-cafe. Can you try upgrading "cabal-install" to see if the new solver handles it better? I think the new version works with what is in the platform. If you also get errors there might be ways to make it go ... Antoine

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