On Saturday 12 March 2011 22:53:27, Andres Loeh wrote:
Hi Tom.
Please install `gtk2hs-buildtools` first and check that the install directory is in your PATH (e.g. HOME/.cabal/bin).
The most likely explanation for your problems seems to be that while you have the buildtools installed, you haven't actually added $HOME/.cabal/bin to your search path, so it isn't found by cabal.
A common mistake would be to add it in the form export PATH="~/.cabal/bin:$PATH" Many (most, I think) shells don't do tilde expansion in quoted strings, so you'd have a literal '~' in your PATH. That's no problem if it's passed to a shell, but other programmes usually don't do expansion for such strings. If that's the case here, possible fixes are - spelling it out - using $HOME instead of ~ - not quoting
This might also hold for the new version of cabal-install you installed, which installs a "cabal" binary to $HOME/.cabal/bin. But if you don't have that in your search path, and have another "cabal" binary installed in, say /usr/bin, then you'll still run the old version and get the message about the newer version again.
Also if the other cabal is in a place before $HOME/.cabal/bin in the PATH.