Am Dienstag, 18. November 2008 11:01 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
Hello,
I installed GHC 6.10.1 today and expected it to contain the cabal command line utility. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Where can I download it?
Meanwhile, I found out that the package cabal-install includes the cabal command. On the other hand I thought that there was a now deprecated command line tool named cabal-install. I find this a bit confusing.
How do I install and configure it so that it is integrated best with GHC 6.10.1? For example, should cabal use some directory in the GHC tree to place compiled packages in?
Cabal wants to place package info in $HOME/.cabal. However, I want to install packages globally with sudo. So I want to have a global package cache. Is there a common directory to be used for that or is cabal[-install] only for per-user installations? Well, there is the --global option but it is apparently only for registering packages globally. Does it change the destination directory for the installed packages too? If yes, to what directory? Is the default --global or --user? Sorry, but I cannot find the answers to this in the docs and I don’t want to mess up my file system. Best wishes, Wolfgang