On Sunday 04 July 2010 12:20:42, Larry Evans wrote:

hdirect is here:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hdirect

however, as shown by the following terminal session, cabal can't find it. What should I do to insteall hdirect?

Strange. What does $ cabal update && cabal list | grep -A 6 hdirect produce? Well, in case of emergency, there's always *download the .tar.gz from hackage via wget, browser, ... * unpack the archive $ cd hdirect/0.21.0 $ cabal install but try the other route first. Also, you might consider $ cabal install cabal-install-0.6.2 [or 0.6.4] and try your luck with that.

~/download/haskell/libs $ cabal -V cabal-install version 0.6.0 using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library ~/download/haskell/libs $ uname -a Linux evansl-desktop 2.6.24-24-generic #1 SMP Fri Sep 18 16:16:18 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux ~/download/haskell/libs $ cabal install happy --dry-run Resolving dependencies... In order, the following would be installed (use -v for more details): mtl-1.1.0.2 happy-1.18.1 ~/download/haskell/libs $ cabal install hdirect --dry-run cabal: There is no package named hdirect ~/download/haskell/libs $