Re: [Haskell-beginners] 'cabal install hdirect' can't find hdirect

On Sunday 04 July 2010 12:34:52, Stephen Tetley wrote:

On 4 July 2010 11:28, Daniel Fischer wrote:

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Well, in case of emergency, there's always

*download the .tar.gz from hackage via wget, browser, ... * unpack the archive $ cd hdirect/0.21.0 $ cabal install

If you download the archive there is also the manual way:

Sure, but "cabal install" requires less typing. And it defaults to user- installs, so you needn't pass --user to Setup configure. And with a proper config file, you needn't pass --enable-library-profiling to configure and you needn't run (Setup) haddock manually and cabal install automatically puts the created docs in the same place as the others. On the whole, cabal install is much more convenient :)

cd into the archive after untarring it...

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runhaskell Setup.hs configure runhaskell Setup.hs build runhaskell Setup.hs install

The last step may require sudo privileges depending on your set up. Also some archives have a Setup.lhs rather than Setup.hs file.