On May 7, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote:
"show" is the failing package
A look on Hackage suggests that "show" had problems with its cabal file at versions 0.4 & 0.4.1 and was fixed at 0.4.1.1.
Can you try installing "show" individually at 0.4.1.1 the try installing the rest of lambdabot.
$ cabal install show Resolving dependencies... Configuring show-0.4.1.1... Warning: This package indirectly depends on multiple versions of the same package. This is highly likely to cause a compile failure. package haskell98-1.1.0.1 requires random-1.0.0.3 package QuickCheck-2.4.0.1 requires random-1.0.0.3 package show-0.4.1.1 requires random-1.0.0.3 package random-1.0.0.3 requires time-1.2.0.3 package random-1.0.0.3 requires time-1.2.0.4 Preprocessing library show-0.4.1.1... Building show-0.4.1.1... <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id random-1.0.0.3-749b78c54a8a99991b32dbb45d98a91b: random-1.0.0.3-749b78c54a8a99991b32dbb45d98a91b is shadowed by package random-1.0.0.3-57524486875e0c4c260dd22788921013 (use -v for more information) cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: show-0.4.1.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1