The problem I was running into is solved but incase anyone else runs into this problem: Install with the &quot;--force&quot; option:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span dir="ltr"></span>cabal install --user --enable-documentation --ghc-pkg-option=--force gtk<br>
<br>but if the build ends with &quot;invalid argument&quot; like this:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">
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Linking /tmp/gtk-0.11.011162/gtk-0.11.0/dist/setup/setup ...<br>Configuring gtk-0.11.0...<br>setup: ./Graphics/UI/Gtk/General/IconTheme.chs: invalid argument<br>Updating documentation index /home/tim/.cabal/share/doc/index.html<div class="im">
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cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:<br></div>gtk-0.11.0 failed during the building phase. The exception was:<br>ExitFailure 1<br></div></div><br>
</blockquote></div><br>Then you don&#39;t currently have your locale set to UTF-8. Set your <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/using-localization.html">locale</a> to UTF-8 then try again and it should work.<br>