On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generow...@cern.ch> wrote: > > On 2011 May 23, at 13:45, Anthony Cowley wrote: >> As for the platform, if it is giving you trouble, don't shy away from >> just using GHC and cabal as normal! After you've cabal installed a few >> big packages, you will find that you've acquired many of the most >> popular packages. > > If by "cabal install" you mean use the command "cabal" ... yeah, that would > be great, if only I could install cabal-install, which fails. Or do you mean > "manual install" of Cabal packages? Either way, I'm not making much > progress.
What I do is get GHC installed, then download the cabal-install package from hackage and use the bootstrap.sh installer it comes with. Then you can use the cabal executable to install packages as you go. Anthony _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
