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

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! D

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Mauricio wrote:

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?

Sure, just write: runhaskell Setup.hs configure --user --prefix=personal/directory/where/to/install/the/package --user tells cabal to install the package in the user package-database You might want to use cabal-install [1] in order to automatize the insallation of Cabal packages. By default it uses the --user flag and copies the package files under $HOME/.cabal/. Important caveat: Make sure to also supply the --user flag when compiling other packages which depend on your library. Otherwise Cabal will only look for it in the global package-dabatase and won¡t be able to find it. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/cabal-install

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:08 -0300, Mauricio wrote:

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?

$ cabal instsll xmonad Does exactly that by default. No other flags are required. By default it stores files under $HOME/.cabal and registers the packages in ghc's per-user db. So no special permissions are required. If you want to change the defaults then you can use command line flags or edit the $HOME/.cabal/config file. Duncan