Iain Barnett wrote:

I want to install Cabal library 1.6.0.2 on OSX 10.4.11. Unfortunately, none of my attempts so far appear to have worked. I already had 1.4.0.1 but it wouldn't upgrade when running "cabal upgrade", it just hangs.

iainb$ cabal --v cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library

first attempt:

iainb$ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install iainb$ sudo sh bootstrap.sh

Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: Cabal >=1.7.2 && <1.9

The darcs version relies on an unreleased version of the Cabal library. (If you want to go that route, it's available from http://darcs.haskell.org/Cabal/ )

second attempt; I downloaded the tarball from http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-1.6.0.2/Cabal-1.6.0.2.tar.gz:

Good so far.

iainb$ cd Cabal-1.6.0.2/ iainb$ sudo runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=/usr/local/ iainb$ sudo runhaskell Setup build iainb$ sudo runhaskell Setup install Installing library in /usr/local/lib/Cabal-1.6.0.2/ghc-6.8.3 Registering Cabal-1.6.0.2... Reading package info from "dist/installed-pkg-config" ... done. Saving old package config file... done. Writing new package config file... done.

iainb$ cabal --v cabal-install version 0.5.1 using version 1.4.0.1 of the Cabal library

That's the library cabal-install was compiled and linked against. You'll have to reinstall cabal-install as well. Does cabal install --global cabal-install work? Btw, if you have installed cabal-install with --user (which is the default), the binary will be in ~/.cabal/bin , which you can add to your PATH. Otherwise, pick up the latest release from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install and compile it manually.

If I run "ghc-pkg list" then it displays: /usr/local/lib/ghc-6.8.3/package.conf: Cabal-1.2.3.0, Cabal-1.6.0.2, ... /Users/iainb/.ghc/i386-darwin-6.8.3/package.conf: Cabal-1.6.0.2, ...

That part looks good. Note that you have two installations of the Cabal library, one global and one user installation. HTH, Bertram