I'm not sure if the following steps will solve your problems nor if they're all required, but maybe you should try: - Remove "~/.ghc" and "~/.cabal" directories. - Check if "~/.cabal/bin" is in your path and add it otherwise. - Run "cabal update". I prefer using Homebrew to install the Haskell Platform and current version is still 2013 (7.6.3 ghc), so I can't give further advices. 2014-08-26 1:51 GMT-03:00 Madhu Babu :

I initially installed haskell platform ( 2013 version; 7.6.3 ghc ) on my mac. Everything was working great. Just now saw the haskell platform website again and found new version was released ( Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 for Mac OS X, 64bit ). I installed it, and un-installed the older version using uninstall-hs.

Now when i type "cabal" or "cabal update" on my terminal, it hangs. Actually when i look into Activity Monitor, i can see that it is invoking some "sh script & possibly some find command" infinitely. I initially guess may be it is building some indexes. but it has been running for an hr or so.

I have Xcode 5, gcc and other command line tools installed properly

Please advice. I cannot install any other package using cabal.

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