vamosaverlas:
From Dominik Bruhn: You have to execute the following AS YOUR USER (not as root):
#for xmonad: runhaskell Setup.lhs --user --prefix=${HOME} configure runhaskell Setup.lhs build runhaskell Setup.lhs install
#for XMonadContrib exactly the same as above.
If you do this, Cabal registers the Packages automatically and xmonad should find them.
1. The above worked instantly. Thank you. 2. (While admitting that the problem could have been something else I did), let me point out that http://xmonad.org/intro.html, which I tried to follow, gives this, with a different order, and no curly braces:
$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --prefix=$HOME $ runhaskell Setup.lhs build $ runhaskell Setup.lhs install --user
(is it wrong?)
Ah ha, yes. that's missing --user for the configure step. Well spotted. The docs will update shortly. -- Don