Re: [Haskell-cafe] Libraries in home dir

Hi, In addition if you want to do this all or most of the time, that is there are few/no cabalised libraries you DO wish to install globally, then you can tell 'cabal' to do this all the time by editing your ~/.cabal/config file. Here is mine: repos: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive cachedir: "/home/<USERNAME>/.cabal/packages" hackage-username: "" hackage-password: "" compiler: ghc user-install: True user-prefix: "/home/<USERNAME>/install/" regards allan Dougal Stanton wrote:

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Mauricio wrote:

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Hi,

I want to use a few libraries from hackage and have already download and built them. Can I install those libraries somewhere in my home dir (I want to avoid installing as root) so that ghc can find them?

If so, which options should I give to Setup.hs (with main=defaultMain) so that the libraries are going to be copy to that dir?

Dpeending on whether you have (and are using) cabal-install, either

$ cabal install diagrams --prefix=$HOME --user

or

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME --user

That will (a) put the libraries etc in $HOME/lib and (b) register these packages locally.

Hope that helps!

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