Hi,
    I get this error. I think have zlib installed! what package should I install to compile cabal on my machine (ubuntu - 8.04)

Configuring cabal-install-0.5.2...
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
zlib >=0.4

status of zlib on my machine is as following

bahs$ aptitude search zlib
p   gambas2-gb-compress-bzlib2      - The Gambas bzlib2 component             
p   gambas2-gb-compress-zlib        - The Gambas zlib compression component   
p   libcompress-raw-zlib-perl       - low-level interface to zlib compression l
p   libcompress-zlib-perl           - Perl module for creation and manipulation
p   libio-compress-zlib-perl        - Perl interface to zlib                  
p   libio-zlib-perl                 - IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib  
p   libjzlib-java                   - Reimplementation of zlib in pure java   
i   libzlib-ruby                    - transitional dummy package              
v   libzlib-ruby1.8                 -                                         
i   zlib-bin                        - compression library - sample programs   
i   zlib1g                          - compression library - runtime           
p   zlib1g-dbg                      - compression library - development       
i A zlib1g-dev                      - compression library - development       
i   zlibc                           - Uncompressing C Library  


Regards,
Vikrant


2008/8/5 jinjing <nfjinjing@gmail.com>
What I did was to compile from source:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall

notice the darcs repo?

http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/

I used

   runghc Setup configure --user --prefix=$HOME

to keep packages in user space, i.e. inside ~/.cabal folder.


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Sebastian Menge
<sebastian.menge@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Am Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:10:16 +0530
> schrieb Vikrant <vikrant.patil@gmail.com>:
>
>> well, How do I get cabal! on my ubuntu installation it gives me error
>> saying libghc6-cabal-dev depends ghc < 6.6.1 but 6.8.2 installed!
>
> Thats a known bug, but I cant remeber my workaround. Anyways I have
> installed
>
> libhugs-cabal-bundled
>
> IIRC from a gutsy-repository
>
> HTH, Sebastian.
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