however still fails to install but now due to problems with cabal itself

[76 of 76] Compiling Main ( /var/folders/9b/rh4y2gy92hgdb6ktv4df1jv00000gn/T/Cabal-1.20.0.3-62215/Cabal-1.20.0.3/dist/setup/setup.hs, /var/folders/9b/rh4y2gy92hgdb6ktv4df1jv00000gn/T/Cabal-1.20.0.3-62215/Cabal-1.20.0.3/dist/setup/Main.o )
Linking /var/folders/9b/rh4y2gy92hgdb6ktv4df1jv00000gn/T/Cabal-1.20.0.3-62215/Cabal-1.20.0.3/dist/setup/setup ...
Configuring Cabal-1.20.0.3...
Building Cabal-1.20.0.3...
Preprocessing library Cabal-1.20.0.3...

on the commandline: Warning:
-package-name is deprecated: Use -this-package-key instead
ghc: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases (dist/package.conf.inplace) use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.
Updating documentation index
/Users/gcolpitts/Library/Haskell/share/doc/index.html
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Cabal-1.20.0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
cabal-install-1.20.0.6 depends on Cabal-1.20.0.3 which failed to install.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:34 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> wrote:

following solves dependency problems, added a few more packages, thanks!

cabal install --allow-newer=base,bytestring,deepseq,unix,process,time,random -j3 cabal-install

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:27 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks but that doesn't seem to work either:

cabal install --allow-newer=base --allow-newer=bytestring,deepseq -j3 cabal-install
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
trying: cabal-install-1.20.0.6 (user goal)
trying: base-4.8.0.0/installed-779... (dependency of cabal-install-1.20.0.6)
next goal: process (dependency of cabal-install-1.20.0.6)
rejecting: process-1.2.1.0/installed-2db... (conflict: unix==2.7.1.0, process
=> unix==2.7.1.0/installed-4ae...)
trying: process-1.2.1.0
next goal: directory (dependency of cabal-install-1.20.0.6)
rejecting: directory-1.2.1.1/installed-b08... (conflict: directory =>
time==1.5.0.1/installed-c23..., cabal-install => time>=1.1 && <1.5)
rejecting: directory-1.2.1.0 (conflict: base==4.8.0.0/installed-779...,
directory => base>=4.5 && <4.8)
rejecting: directory-1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.0 (conflict:
base==4.8.0.0/installed-779..., directory => base>=4.2 && <4.7)
rejecting: directory-1.1.0.2 (conflict: base==4.8.0.0/installed-779...,
directory => base>=4.2 && <4.6)
rejecting: directory-1.1.0.1 (conflict: base==4.8.0.0/installed-779...,
directory => base>=4.2 && <4.5)
rejecting: directory-1.1.0.0 (conflict: base==4.8.0.0/installed-779...,
directory => base>=4.2 && <4.4)
rejecting: directory-1.0.1.2, 1.0.1.1, 1.0.1.0, 1.0.0.3, 1.0.0.0 (conflict:
process => directory>=1.1 && <1.3)
Dependency tree exhaustively searched.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov <the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

On 1 January 2015 at 19:00, George Colpitts <george.colpitts@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, there seems to be dependency issues:

Try also adding '--allow-newer=bytestring,deepseq'.