Hi I've just installed cabal-install (just as a user: I am nowhere near root) on our unix server at work. That went fine. Clearly, the sensible thing to do next is get hold of an up-to-date package list. So, I tried conor@cafe:~$ cabal update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream Here's the verbose version. conor@cafe:~$ cabal -v3 update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org Sending: GET http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: cabal-install/0.8.2 Host: hackage.haskell.org proxy uri host: www-cache.strath.ac.uk, port: :8080 Creating new connection to www-cache.strath.ac.uk:8080 Received: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:59:17 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.9 (Debian) mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 Last-Modified: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:38:17 GMT ETag: "1888003-20bb4e-493ac9dbe6040" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 2145102 Content-Type: application/x-tar Content-Encoding: x-gzip X-Cache: MISS from rouble-1.cc.strath.ac.uk X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from rouble-1.cc.strath.ac.uk:8080 Via: 1.1 rouble-1.cc.strath.ac.uk:8080 (squid/2.7.STABLE7) Connection: close Downloaded to /home/s3/conor/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar.gz cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream So I poked about a bit, and I see it's a known issue. As a user, I'm wondering what to do. Just now, wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz is chugging away quite nicely. Anyhow, is there (a) something I can do to avoid this problem? I couldn't quite grasp what to do from the TRAC (b) some way to persuade cabal to use the file I'm currently downloading? Any tips to keep the gremlins at bay gratefully appreciated. Thanks Conor