Paolo has been hacking on cabal-install, as many of you know. Cabal-install is a tool for installing cabal packages and their dependencies. We put together this little script that _should_ just install cabal-install, along with testing it out to install hnop. I know this works on my Debian box, your results may vary, especially if you don't use sudo, but these commands should be pretty clear for you to try them yourself. Please copy and paste this into a terminal, or make minor tweaks and do the same. Email cabal-devel to let us know if it worked or if it didn't! wget http://hackage.haskell.org/~paolo/darcs/cabal-install/test-cabal-install && chmod 755 test-cabal-install && ./test-cabal-install (Now that you've got that working, you can "cabal-install list" and see the packages on the server.) peace, isaac p.s. of course, if you don't trust hackage or paolo, you should look at the code before you run it as root ;) p.p.s. the script itself, in case you want to copy, mod, and paste is: #!/bin/sh darcs get http://hackage.haskell.org/~paolo/darcs/cabal-install/ && \ cd cabal-install && \ make && \ sudo make install && \ sudo cabal-install update && \ cabal-install install --prefix=/tmp --user hnop && \ ls -l /tmp/bin/hnop