On 20 September 2010 00:33, Deb Midya <debmidya@yahoo.com> wrote:
At DOS prompt, I typed: \ghc> cabal update
 
The following message appears:
 
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
cabal: failed
 
Is there any solution for it please?

To start with, you can run cabal update -v to get a more detailed output about the cause of the failure.

Ozgur