Thanks for everyone's help with this so far. However, I'm having some problems using cabal: Whenever I try to runghc Setup.hs install a cabal file (I've tried parsec and network) I get an error message similar to this: Setup.hs: parsec.cabal:15: Unknown field 'build-type' I tried to install Cabal from darcs and I also got an error message when trying to configure: Setup.lhs: cabal-install.cabal:30: Invalid syntax (no colon after field name) Does anyone else have these problems? Or, am I doing something obviously wrong? Thanks, Chris. On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Don Stewart wrote:
cmb21:
Hi,
I have just built and installed ghc-6.8.2 on my linux box but I can't find the network package. Has it been moved or left out?
It's not installed by default. You can find it on hackage.haskell.org,
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/network-2.1.0.0
As the Haskell community is moving to a more distributed development model (with a central archive).
You can also build and install 'cabal-install', to make installation easy.
$ cabal install network
Cheers, Don