jb162:

Hi caballers, I have installed cabal-install from darcs and can use update and list but not install. I'm using ubuntu Feisty and ghc 6.6. (I think this is the same problem that this person has >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cabal.devel/1353/

jim@mowa624-jb162:~/haskell/cabal/cabal-install$ ~/haskell/bin/bin/cabal -v3 install xslt Configuration: compiler: GHC repos: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive cachedir: "/home/jim/.cabal/packages" user-install: true user-prefix: "/home/jim/.cabal" user-bindir: "$prefix/bin" user-libdir: "$prefix/lib" user-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec" user-datadir: "$prefix/share" user-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid" user-htmldir: "$docdir/html" global-prefix: "/usr/local" global-bindir: "$prefix/bin" global-libdir: "$prefix/lib" global-libexecdir: "$prefix/libexec" global-datadir: "$prefix/share" global-docdir: "$datadir/doc/$pkgid" global-htmldir: "$docdir/html" searching for ghc in path. found ghc at /usr/bin/ghc ("/usr/bin/ghc",["--numeric-version"]) /usr/bin/ghc is version 6.6 looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /usr/bin found package tool in /usr/bin/ghc-pkg ("/usr/bin/ghc-pkg",["--version"]) /usr/bin/ghc-pkg is version 6.6 searching for ld in path. found ld at /usr/bin/ld ("/usr/bin/ghc",["-c","dist/Conftest.c"]) ("/usr/bin/ld",["-x","-r","dist/Conftest.o","-o","dist/Conftest2.o"]) Reading installed packages... ("/usr/bin/ghc-pkg",["--user","list"]) 'libxml-0.1' is cached. Extracting /home/jim/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/libxml/0.1/libxml-0.1.tar.gz to /tmp/TMPlibxml-0.1TMP... setupWrapper ["configure","-v3","--user","--prefix=/home/jim/.cabal","--bindir=/home/jim/.cabal/bin","--libdir=/home/jim/.cabal/lib/libxml-0.1/ghc-6.6","--libexecdir=/home/jim/.cabal/libexec","--datadir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/libxml-0.1","--docdir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/doc/libxml-0.1","--htmldir=/home/jim/.cabal/share/doc/libxml-0.1/html"] Just "/tmp/TMPlibxml-0.1TMP/libxml-0.1" cabal: dist/Conftest.c: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Any ideas?

This bug is fixed in the darcs version of Cabal, so grab that, then rebuild cabal-install. Cheers, Don