hi, cafe: I go through to the encoding package installation problem again. cabal install encoding Resolving dependencies... /tmp/encoding-0.6.68093/encoding-0.6.6/dist/setup/setup: 4: Syntax error: ";" unexpected when I have a check on the this issue, I get: file ~/.cabal/packages/ hackage.haskell.org/encoding/0.6.6/encoding-0.6.6/dist/setup/setup /home/gang/.cabal/packages/ hackage.haskell.org/encoding/0.6.6/encoding-0.6.6/dist/setup/setup: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.27, not stripped My machine is: gang@gang-laptop:~$ uname -a Linux gang-laptop 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux is this related? How can I manually install the package from scratch? Any helps or directs will be appreciated Thanks Gang