Check your PATH environment variable and make sure that the directory it is
installed in appears first in the list.
I believe the default installation directory for OS X is:
~/Library/Haskell/bin
To have OS X use the latest cabal (without overwriting anything), you can
do something like this in your login script (default login script is
.bash_profile):
export PATH=$HOME/Library/Haskell/bin:$PATH
James
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Jeffrey Brown
"cabal install cabal-install" is not working for me. I am not the first to find this problem; it is mentioned here https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal/Survival:
"Notice, that in some cases (OS X, especially) the new cabal-install might not be installed on top of the previous one, and the old cabal-install must be replaced manually"
I don't know how to manually replace Cabal. The closest thing I could find to instructions for that were here https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-February/073526.html, but I don't understand them.
The Haskell Platform installer is what installed Cabal for me. I have not found how to undo that, nor how to install Cabal in any other fashion. Running the Haskell Platform installer again seems dangerous, potentially conflicting with its earlier work.
A likely unnecessary shell transcript demonstrating the problem appears below.
I am running OS X 10.9 on a MacBook Pro, of which the decision to purchase I regret more daily.
Thank you.
-----
When I try to update cabal, it looks like it works:
jefferys-mbp:~ jbb$ cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... Configuring cabal-install-1.20.0.3... Building cabal-install-1.20.0.3... Installed cabal-install-1.20.0.3 Updating documentation index /Users/jbb/Library/Haskell/share/doc/index.html
But the version number exhibits no change:
jefferys-mbp:~ jbb$ cabal --version cabal-install version 1.18.0.5 using version 1.18.1.4 of the Cabal library
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe