Re: [Haskell-beginners] installing cabal 1.20 on linux mint debian edition (LMDE)

...and I'm back to the error regarding the shadowing of network pakage ovidiu@thinkpad ~ $ cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... Downloading cabal-install-1.20.0.2... Configuring cabal-install-1.20.0.2... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package HTTP-4000.2.8 requires network-2.4.1.2 package cabal-install-1.20.0.2 requires network-2.4.1.2 Building cabal-install-1.20.0.2... Preprocessing executable 'cabal' for cabal-install-1.20.0.2... <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id network-2.4.1.2-fc99093587d92370c7febe034504fb40: network-2.4.1.2-fc99093587d92370c7febe034504fb40 is shadowed by package network-2.4.1.2-040cee5ece44014a8574cb3f87b1eec4 (use -v for more information) Failed to install cabal-install-1.20.0.2 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: cabal-install-1.20.0.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Peter Jones wrote:

Ovidiu Deac writes:

...

ovidiu@thinkpad ~ $ cabal update && cabal install cabal

That should be:

$ cabal install cabal-install

Cabal is a library, and cabal-install is the executable.

-- Peter Jones, Founder, Devalot.com Defending the honor of good code

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