cabal -v3 update will give you a more verbose version of what is going wrong.
cabal --help regrettably, cabal --help doesn't tell you this but there is always the man page I suppose. 2009/7/16 Tony Hannan <tonyhann...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > I'm on Ubuntu 8.10. > I installed ghc 6.10.4 (from binary package: > ghc-6.10.4-i386-unknown-linux-n.tar.bz2). > I installed haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1 (from source package: > haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1.tar.gz). It contains cabal-install-0.6.2. > > Then when I run "cabal update", I get the following error: > cabal: : openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory) > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe