On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Eugene Kirpichov
A friend of mine is trying to install my "timeplotters" (see email signature). He's getting a weird error: one of the tools installs fine but the other one fails with the error "Couldn't read cabal file "hashable/ 1.2.0.0/hashable.cabal""; curiously, so does running "cabal install cabal-install".
That's a symptom of too old cabal-install that crashes when it encounters certain newer cabal file features. I believe you need to upgrade cabal-install manually (since cabal-install itself will crash trying to do so...). It's not opening a cabal file directly, it is trying to parse entries in the compressed package list. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net