I'm trying to install cabal-install. I ran:

$ cabal update && cabal install cabal-install

After compiling, cabal reported:

Installing executable(s) in /home/ajs/.cabal/bin

Installed cabal-install-1.20.0.1

But now consider:

$ cabal --version

cabal-install version 1.16.0.2

using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library

$ which cabal

/home/ajs/.cabal/bin/cabal

$ /home/ajs/.cabal/bin/cabal --version

cabal-install version 1.20.0.1

using version 1.20.0.0 of the Cabal library

I am confused. My path is set to point to "$HOME/.cabal/bin/:$PATH"