Probably one needs to ensure that ~/.cabal/bin is in the PATH-variable before the path that cabal normally lives in. Alternatively you have to use sudo and the --global switch for cabal (not recommended).

Am 30.04.2014 18:22 schrieb "Daniel Trstenjak" <daniel.trstenjak@gmail.com>:

Hi Ari,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:18:08PM -0400, Ari King wrote:
> Is it best to clone the cabal git repo and install as described here? In which
> case, should I remove the existing cabal installation from "/usr/bin"?

It's just:

   cabal install cabal-install


Greetings,
Daniel
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