Am Dienstag, 18. November 2008 11:01 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: > Hello, > > I installed GHC 6.10.1 today and expected it to contain the cabal command > line utility. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Where can I download > it?
Meanwhile, I found out that the package cabal-install includes the cabal command. On the other hand I thought that there was a now deprecated command line tool named cabal-install. I find this a bit confusing. > How do I install and configure it so that it is integrated best with > GHC 6.10.1? For example, should cabal use some directory in the GHC tree > to place compiled packages in? Cabal wants to place package info in $HOME/.cabal. However, I want to install packages globally with sudo. So I want to have a global package cache. Is there a common directory to be used for that or is cabal[-install] only for per-user installations? Well, there is the --global option but it is apparently only for registering packages globally. Does it change the destination directory for the installed packages too? If yes, to what directory? Is the default --global or --user? Sorry, but I cannot find the answers to this in the docs and I don’t want to mess up my file system. Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
