Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-30 Thread Ketil Malde
Thanks for the clarification, the SICP article was something I feel I should have known, but did not. It seems to me that while there are *three* ways to install stuff: apt-get install, cabal install --global, and cabal install --user, there are just *two* ways things get installed, globally and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-29 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 10-11-28 09:55 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: Joachim Breitnerm...@joachim-breitner.de writes: I would not recommend using --global on Debian/Ubuntu-systems, as it might interfere with packages installed by Debian. But 'cabal install --global' installs in /usr/local/, does it not? And official

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-29 Thread Albert Y. C. Lai
On 10-11-29 03:15 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote: cabal install --global binary apt-get install libghc6-binary-dev They are the same version (at the time of writing, and assume Ubuntu 10.10) and they will fight for the unique throne of binary-0.5.0.2 in the metadata. Oh bother, Debian/Ubuntu's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Samstag, den 27.11.2010, 21:37 -0800 schrieb Moisei: At the Leksah website there are instructions for installing it on Ubuntu. 1. sudo apt-get install cabal-install 2. sudo apt-get install libghc6-zlib-dev 3. cabal update 4. sudo cabal install cabal-install --global

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de writes: I would not recommend using --global on Debian/Ubuntu-systems, as it might interfere with packages installed by Debian. But 'cabal install --global' installs in /usr/local/, does it not? And official packages (i.e. debs) put stuff in /usr, so

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unable to install packages

2010-11-27 Thread Moisei
At the Leksah website there are instructions for installing it on Ubuntu. 1. sudo apt-get install cabal-install 2. sudo apt-get install libghc6-zlib-dev 3. cabal update 4. sudo cabal install cabal-install --global 5. sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev 6. sudo apt-get install