OK, that worked, thank you very much!
I'm sorry if that wasn't the correct place for the question, I came
here as said at Cabal homepage http://www.haskell.org/cabal/.
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Daniel Fischer
On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:57:19, Harad wrote:
Hello everybody,
I was trying to install `snap` but I was getting this error:
<command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id haskell98-1.1.0.1-6c0d823d8a0fe4966441285c9ec0b534:
I still don't fully understand why was this happening but, reading here and there, I ended up running `ghc-pkg unregister --user haskell98`. Some of you may be facepalming at this point, because then if I ran `ghc-pkg check` I got a really, really long list of broken packages.
If you didn't use --force, those packages would have been broken before, ghc-pkg shouldn't unregister packages if that would break others without the --force flag.
So I decided to throw it all away, removed the whole Haskell Platform from my computer as told here http://bit.ly/jHBzEk (I know, pretty Mac-ish solution), installed it back... but I continue getting the same error when installing `snap`, and `ghc-pkg check` still throws me this infinite list: http://pastebin.com/duTC4rqX .
Looks like you removed your ~/.cabal, but haven't removed your user package-db.
The best I know is to remove ~/.ghc/[version]/package.conf.d, so your ghc only knows about the global packages and then reinstall the user packages. That will take a while, but as is, your setup seems completely broken.
I searched but I didn't find any posible solution. Do you have any idea of how can I clean up all that mess? Thanks in advance!
(If my English is awful is because I'm Spanish and Spanish people are the worse language learners in the world, so I'm sorry for that.)
P.S.: This sort of problem should better go to haskell-cafe rather than libraries, I think.