On 10 April 2016 at 20:35, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
>> <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 10 April 2016 at 17:36, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > Basic setups -- is it called haskell-mode/haskell-emacs or what?
>>>
>>> haskell-emacs was Chris Done's first attempt at writing a new Haskell
>>> mdoe for Emacs before he merged it into haskell-mode proper; so you
>>> probably don't want to use haskell-emacs any more (it's rather old and
>>> quite probably bitrotted).
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>> Just tried the "Quick Install" instructions at
>> https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode
>> As best as I can see there is no haskell-mode after package-refresh
>> contents
>> There is only these when I try to do package-install [completions buffer]
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>> Click on a completion to select it.
>> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
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>> Possible completions are:
>> haskell-emacs     haskell-emacs-base
>> haskell-emacs-text     haskell-snippets
>> haskell-tab-indent
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> Update:
> While the install via emacs package system doesn't work, install via git
> does
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> <ot remark>
> Emacs package system is about as broken as a linux kernel would be if it
> tried to do the job of grub
> </ot remark>
>

Can you double check whether melpa-stable was indeed added to
package-archives?  (That said, I use melpa itself rather than
melpa-stable to get regular snapshots rather than specific releases.)

Another alternative is to use el-get to fetch it from git rather than
package.el.