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From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
To: Imam Toufique <wnyrodeo@yahoo.com>
Cc: "xmonad@haskell.org" <xmonad@haskell.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [xmonad] how to install xmonad for group of users.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 20:15, Imam Toufique <wnyrodeo@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have been trying to install xmonad (using cabal) for the past week for a group of users and having some issues with it.  When I try to install it for myself it works just fine, but I when I try install it for a group of users, it gives me errors that some packages/modules are missing.  I used the following cabal command:

>cabal install --prefix=$PREFIX --build-log=/tmp/xmonad.log.3 xmonad (where my prefix is /net/tools/xmonad/0.10

There are two aspects to use of cabal-install:  install location and registry information.  Changing --prefix does not change the registry used; if you want to do a global install, you need to add the --global option so that the package is registered in the global database instead of the local one.  (Note that --global will also change the default install location to the one ghc itself is installed in, which is /usr/local for the official Haskell Platform packages and /usr for most Linux distribution packages.)

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