We have sandboxes now, which (I think) weren't there 2 yrs ago. Try this: $ mkdir hse # Directory for Haskell school of expression $ cd hse $ cabal sandbox init # Create a new sandbox $ cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools # Install gtk2hs-buildtools inside sandbox $ export PATH=".cabal-sandbox/bin:$PATH" # Add the binaries installed in (current directory's) sandbox to $PATH $ cabal install gtk # Install gtk (and anything else you need) The above works in my case. Also, if you have a lot of packages installed in "~/.cabal", then I recommend that you remove them and install them in sandboxes where they are actually required. Manually, you'd do it as follows: $ mv ~/.cabal/packages ~/temporary_package_storage # Long name to avoid clash, save downloaded package sources $ rm -rf ~/.ghc ~/.cabal # Remove all packages, and ghc's knowledge of them $ mkdir ~/.cabal # Make a new ~/.cabal directory $ mv ~/temporary_package_storage ~/.cabal/packages # Reinsert the saved downloaded package sources For more info, look here: https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/installing-packages.html#developin... Also, after some time it becomes natural to deal with cabal. For example, I have that export line in my .zshrc. Thus the sandbox residing in current directory is always in my path. Also, a shell function that you may want to use. cabal-reset () { if [[ ! -d ~/.cabal-packages ]] ; then # If backup does not exist mv ~/.cabal/packages ~/.cabal-packages # Make a backup fi rm -rf ~/.ghc ~/.cabal # Nuke everything mkdir ~/.cabal # Create new ~/.cabal ln -s ~/.cabal-packages ~/.cabal/packages # Symlink backup to ~/.cabal/packages } Hope this helps. On 1 March 2015 at 10:10, DJ <jakep@arqux.com> wrote:
Trying to install the package soegtk.
I am running linux mint 17 with the latest (as of Feb. 28) haskell platform and cabal-install.
I did install gtk2hs-buildtools and put the .cabal/bin in my path.
Cannot install soegtk:
Failed to install glib-0.12.5.4 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: cairo-0.12.5.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 gio-0.12.5.3 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install. glib-0.12.5.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 1 gtk-0.12.5.7 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install. pango-0.12.5.3 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install. soegtk-0.12.1 depends on glib-0.12.5.4 which failed to install.
Confession: I abandoned Haskell two years ago because of frustration with cabal and hackage. I decided to get back to the language today, and to start with Haskell School of Expression. I immediately run into the problem that the first thing I try to install with cabal does not work.
Thanks for any help. Please tell me things are not just as bad now as they were when I left ;-)
- DJP -
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