On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 14:18 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:21:59 +0200, Dougal Stanton
$ cabal list | less ... * cairo Latest version installed: 0.9.13 Homepage: http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/ License: BSD3 ... $ cabal install cairo cabal: There is no package named cairo
I must admit I was surprised to see a gtk2hs module on Hackage, but not half as surprised when I found it wasn't there after all...
There is clearly something wrong here; there is also a package named gtk that is listed with "cabal list" but cannot be downloaded.
There is nothing wrong, but perhaps the output is not very clear. Here's what it says about packages are are installed *and* available on hackage: * zlib Latest version available: 0.4.0.4 Latest version installed: 0.4.0.4 Synopsis: Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats License: BSD3 Where as for cairo and gtk you'll notice that it does not list any available version. Perhaps for packages that are installed but not re-installable via Cabal (like cairo, base, ghc etc) it should say something. Do you have any specific suggestions? Duncan