Hi Sean, On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Sean McAfee wrote:

Hello--

I hope my question is appropriate here; I couldn't find an obviously better forum for what is apparently a cabal issue in a fair amount of searching.

I've been trying to install the terminfo package on my Ubuntu system like so:

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~$ cabal install terminfo Resolving dependencies... Configuring terminfo-0.4.0.0...

At this point, the command hangs, and I notice my mouse cursor has transformed into a crosshair image for some reason. I can't click on anything normally, but after several clicks around the screen, the command resumes:

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/home/mcafee/node-v0.10.31/configure: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /home/mcafee/node-v0.10.31/configure: line 10: `CC = os.environ.get('CC', 'cc')' Failed to install terminfo-0.4.0.0 cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: terminfo-0.4.0.0 failed during the configure step. The exception was: ExitFailure 2

This means that /home/mcafee/node-v0.10.31/configure, which is apparently a python script, is for some reason getting run by a shell instead. ("import" is a utility that takes a screenshot of a single window which you select with the crosshair cursor, and is also a string often found near the beginning of python scripts.) How you got into this situation, I haven't the foggiest idea. Hope this helps! Regards, Reid Barton