On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 23:44 -0500, Chris Ball wrote:
Hi Steve,
Now with "cabal install", I can not figure out where to specify the --prefix. Cabal always complains "failed to install package".
I think you're just missing a "--user":
$ cabal install --prefix=$HOME --user foo
The prefix can also be set in the $HOME/.cabal/config file. BTW, In the development version of cabal-install --user is the default and the default user prefix is $HOME/.cabal (though both can be changed in the config file). I'd also recommend anyone trying out cabal-install to ignore the old version on hackage and go straight for the development version. It's a tad harder to get installed since it also needs the development version of the Cabal lib, but it has so many issues fixed. darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal cd cabal make setup ./setup configure --prefix=$HOME/.cabal --user ./setup build ./setup install cd .. darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install cd cabal-install runghc Setup.hs configure --prefix=$HOME/.cabal --bindir=$HOME --user runghc Setup.hs build runghc Setup.hs install This assumes $HOME/bin is on your path and that you already have the zlib and HTTP packages installed. Then get the latest hackage package list with: cabal update For a quick guide see: cabal --help There's also bash command line completion support: source bash-completion/cabal Then give it a try. Report any complaints or requests in the hackage trac: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ Duncan