Brandon: Thanks. I did have to install some gtk libraries. I am also working in a sandbox now. This moved things ahead somewhat. But I am getting this now from 'cabal install soegtk':

Graphics/SOE/Gtk.hs:94:18:
    Could not find module `System.Time'
    It is a member of the hidden package `old-time-1.1.0.1'.
    Perhaps you need to add `old-time' to the build-depends in your .cabal file.
    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
Failed to install soegtk-0.9.12.2

I have forgotten anything I once knew about using cabal. I apologize for not learning how to deal with the above on my own, but I am hoping to get over this hump as quickly and painlessly as possible so I don't lose my momentum getting back to Haskell.

So, can anyone give me a hint how to fix the above?

Best,

- DJ -

On 15-03-01 02:29 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 11:40 PM, DJ <jakep@arqux.com> wrote:

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.

Do you have the devel libraries needed by gtk installed? cabal cannot install them for you, and the runtime libraries are not sufficient. You'll want libcairo2-dev for this, and others for other gtk components (notably libgtk-3-dev but there will be others as well).

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