Hi.

> i think the problem is that it claims that ghc is an unknown package. that
> was working on other computers. maybe there's something note quite right
> about the way it's all configured on the (just released) fedora18 haskell
> platform setup?

That's indeed what seems strange about your log, bad error message
aside. What does

ghc-pkg list ghc

say on your system?

Cheers,
  Andres