#281: Installing cabal-install 0.4.0: dependencies problem with zlib ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: low | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform: Linux ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Changes (by duncan): * status: new => closed * resolution: => invalid Comment: You want: {{{ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --user }}} The rationale was that by default package installs are global so the prefix defaults to `/usr/local` and we only look at the global package db. Of course if we are doing a global install then it is vital that we do not depend on packages from the per-user package database because they'd not be available once we'd installed globally. We do acknowledge that the global default is actually a bit of a pain. So for the cabal-install interface we default to per-user installs. I would also recommend that you use the latest version of cabal-install rather than the rather old version that's available on hackage. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall (It needs the development version of Cabal which is why it cannot yet be released on hackage) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/281#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects