I have not run into that problem before.
I would download:
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/index.tar.gz
There is a link for it near the bottom of the main page:
http://hackage.haskell.org
On my mac i would copy it to:
~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/.
I am not sure where the cabal directory is on windows though.
If that does not work another option wold but to download the source for
cabal-install and compile it.
cabal unpack cabal-install, or grab the tarball at the bottom of:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install
cd into the directory and use `cabal install`
That should work if you have all of the dependancies already on your
computer. If you don't and the missing dependency list is large(cabal
configure can tell you what you are missing) then it might just be quicker
to reinstall the haskell platform.
Hope that helps,
Patrick
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Kees Bleijenberg wrote: I don’t know exactly how, but suddenly I get cabal errors. If I do cabal update there are no errors, everything is fine. Cabal install caball-install => cabal: internal error when reading
packages index: could not read tar file entry. The package index or
package cache is probably corrupt. Running cabal update might fix it. Every install or update shows the same error message. I’am using win7 64 bits, Haskell platform 2013.2.0.0. If i do cabal - -
version => cabal install version 1.18.0.2 using version 1.18.1 of the cabal
library. On Google the advice is to clear the directory
c:\users\<user>\appData\roaming\cabal empty. But that removes all my
packages. Isn’t there an easier way? I have never used cabal sandboxes (at least not on purpose) Kees _______________________________________________
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