On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:42:13AM +0100, Amy de Buitléir wrote:
Thank you for the advice. Installation of the darcs version of Xmonad went fine, but I ran into a snag when I tried to install the darcs version of XMonadContrib:
darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib cd XMonadContrib/ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
...after that last command, I got this message:
Configuring xmonad-contrib-0.8.1... Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing: utf8-string -any
So I did "cabal install utf8-string", which ran without errors. Then I retried "runhaskell Setup.lhs configure" and got the same error. Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance, Amy
Instead of using Setup.lhs you could just run "cabal install" in the directory. That way xmonad-contrib will automatically be installed for your user only, like utf8-string. (It has the same effect as Gwern's suggestion of using --user).