Re: RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

On 21/01/2014 08:42, harry wrote:

Agreed. The significant barrier here isn't that cabal-install isn't delivered with GHC (that's HP's job), it's that there isn't a pre-build binary for linux at all, and that the binaries aren't linked to from the GHC download site.

Your Linux distro already provides a cabal-install that will work with the latest GHC, just "apt-get install cabal" or equivalent, then "cabal install cabal-install" to update it if necessary. Cheers, Simon