On 07 Nov 2011, Wirt Wolff wrote:
Excerpts from Allen S. Rout's message of Mon Nov 07 10:59:59 -0700 2011:
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Installation Steps
* Install ghc, darcs, and if available, cabal-install through your distro. Any combo of versions from the past 4 years or so that your distro has decided are compatible with one another are fine.
* If cabal-īnstall isn't available in your repos, follow the simple instructions linked from the installation page: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install#Unix
* In a convenienct directory like ~/repos or the like, run the following commands:
$ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/xmonad $ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install#Unix
* Ensure that the C X11 libraries are available on your machine if you don't have them already. ( i.e. libXinerama libXext libX11 -- libx11-dev on debian based distros).
* Then build and install xmonad and xmonad-contrib with the commands:
$ cd $reponame $ cabal install
But insisting that new users be baptized into your church (or at least attend sunday school for a few months) is really bad for adoption.
What would you suggest to improve this situation? My experience with the xmonad community is that it's pretty friendly and responsive, so any suggestions you share should at least get a fair hearing.
Best regards,
-wmw
I tried this, but got "There is no installed version of base". I found some solutions offered for this on the web but none of them worked. I then reinstalled all the packages (Debian Sid) but still the same error. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell