[Haskell-cafe] Re: Completely confused by cabal

Colin Paul Adams wrote:

Why does cabal install nearly everything in the user repository rather than the global repository?

uh... because you're a mere user and don't have the rights to do so? try "su -", then "cabal update" to fill root's $HOME/.cabal with the needed info, then proceed as usual. TBH, though, I wouldn't use cabal as root, directly, use your distro's package management system instead. Installing programs with your user account, inside your home directory, is perfectly acceptable (and traditional) under unix. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature prohibited.