Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll do that. Here goes: I deleted the ../user/appdata/roaming/ghc and ../cabal files, an uninstalled Haskell-platform. (No trace of anything ghc on the disk.) Then reinstalled Haskell, and ran “cabal update”, it said there was a new cabal-install, but trying to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Niklas Larsson
You should have a ghc directory under appdata, with i386-mingw32-7.4.2\package.conf.d under it. There GHC tracks what packages it knows about. Niklas From: Gregory Guthrie Sent: 2012-11-21 15:11 To: Johan Tibell Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: The error seems odd to me (cabal-install-1.16.0.2 depends on Cabal-1.16.0.3 which failed to install.), that an older version depends on a newer one? There was a minor bug in the Cabal library necessitating a point

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
[mailto:allber...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover So I split it into sections, and tried the first one; it lists a lot of new installs, and then fails (full list at http://pastebin.com/5ywdUjgX) You're explicitly asking it for a new version of HTTP, which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Gregory Guthrie guth...@mum.edu wrote: OK; I took HTTP out, but still get the same error; cabal: The following packages are likely to be broken by the reinstalls: QuickCheck-2.4.2 haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0 Use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover

2012-11-21 Thread Gregory Guthrie
! ☺ --- Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal install... Trying to recover This is the important part, and what I noted immediately afterward --- did you happen to notice there was anything in the message after that first part? (Although I'm not asking this first so it also may not actually exist, I