Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Dominic Steintiz wrote:
I seem to be in some sort package dependency hell (which I thought the Haskell Platform did away with). I install ghc using my package manager (I'm on opensuse)... But
dom1@fourier:~> cabal upgrade cabal-install
A while back I had a similar problem. I was instructed by the Cabal cabal never to use "cabal upgrade", it's broken. Use "cabal install --reinstall" instead.
Hope this helps, Yitz
Hi Yitz, Thanks for this. It turned out that there were some old files in /usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d/* which were confusing ghc-pkg and cabal. I deleted these and re-installed ghc via the package manager and I am now back working (although not on the Haskell Platform afaik). All I had wanted to do was install the "statistics" package and 3 hours later I had ;-) Dominic.