On Saturday 22 January 2011 17:42:39, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > What's your locale?
> > Could also be that GHC tries to interpret UTF-8 in your locale and
> > barfs on that.
>
> Not sure ? Vista's default.
>

Which probably isn't UTF-8. There must be an analogue of locale on Windows
to check.

> > > Are you on Windows ?
> >
> > No, linux.
>
> Ah
>
> How do I get Cabal to install a package from disk rather than from the
> internet ?

If it's unpacked, just cd into the package directory and do a

$ cabal install

there (optionally provide further command line args, but not the package
name)

or

$ runghc ./Setup.hs configure --user
$ runghc ./Setup.hs build
$ runghc ./Setup.hs install

If it's a .tar.gz, I don't know if cabal already supports installing those
from a specified location (i.e., not from hackage or its cache).