On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:49:08, Rohit M. wrote:

I just installed the .dmg fore the Haskell platform. When I run "cabal update" in terminal I get the following:

Note: there is a new version of cabal-install available. To upgrade, run: cabal install cabal-install

I then ran "cabal -V": cabal-install version 0.8.0 using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library

The latest version of cabal install is 0.8.2. When I run "cabal install cabal-install" it seems to work fine, without any errors but when I go back and check i.e. "cabal -V" i still get version 0.8.0.

I tried "cabal list cabal-install": Synopsis: The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage. Latest version available: 0.8.2 Latest version installed: [ Not installed ] Homepage: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/ License: BSD3

What am I missing? It is really annoying that cabal update keeps telling me about a new version of cabal-install that I can't actually get to work!

The new cabal-0.8.2 is probably installed in $HOME/.cabal/bin and that directory isn't in your $PATH. Add it to your path (if it isn't in) before the directory where cabal-0.8.0 is in, so version 0.8.2 is found first.

Thanks Rohit