cabal-install comes with a 'bootstrap' script which downloads all its dependencies for you... although, I don't know if it works on Windows.
Anyway, yes, the real answer is, download the Haskell Platform, which comes with cabal-install already! -Brent On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 01:01:15PM +0900, Renick Bell wrote: > I'm quite new to this myself, but I can provide this advice. You > should definitely install cabal-install and cabal first. > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall > > It's tricky, though, because it also has dependencies on a few > packages that you need to install first. > > base (>=2 && <2.0), bytestring (>=0.9), Cabal (>=1.6 && <1.7), > filepath (>=1.0), HTTP (>=4000.0.2 && <4001), network (>=1 && <3), > unix (>=2.0 && <2.4), zlib (>=0.4 && <0.6) or > base (>=2.0 && <2.2), Cabal (>=1.6 && <1.7), filepath (>=1.0), HTTP > (>=4000.0.2 && <4001), network (>=1 && <3), unix (>=2.0 && <2.4), zlib > (>=0.4 && <0.6) > > You also will need to make sure that you have installed zlib from your > regular distribution package manager (are you using Linux?). > > Actually, I haven't tested it yet, but Haskell Platform promises to > take the hassle out of installing Haskell. > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Platform > > I hope this works; I'll be testing it on several computers shortly. I > just haven't had a chance to yet. > > Good luck! > > Renick > > -- > Renick Bell > http://the3rd2nd.com > _______________________________________________ > haskell-art mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
