Tanks for replying. I now see what went wrong: I went to http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-install-0.8.0/ http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-install-0.8.0/ , because I had read that I needed the 0.8.0 version. I read the page, and grabbed the cabal.exe binary, assuming that it would be version 0.8.0. However, it was the 0.6.2 version. Just too bad. I changed my path to ghc-6.10.2 again, and tried to install the new cabal-install version: C:\>cabal install cabal-install Resolving dependencies... Configuring old-time-1.0.0.2... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: Cabal-1.6.0.3 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. HTTP-4000.0.7 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. cabal-install-0.6.4 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. directory-1.0.0.3 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. old-time-1.0.0.2 failed during the configure step. The exception was: sh: runProcess: does not exist (No such file or directory) process-1.0.1.1 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. random-1.0.0.1 depends on old-time-1.0.0.2 which failed to install. I ran into installation problems with old-time before. do not know how to solve that too. I guess I'll have to wait for ghc 6.12.2 to be launched.... Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/problems-installing-cabal-on-windows-tp27363309p273773... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.