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
> 
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