Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

Hi! I ran into the same problem. Apparently, we need cabal-install 2.0, which has not been released yet. A preliminary solution is to use the development version from the 2.0 branch. Binary packages can be found at      http://ppa.launchpad.net/hvr/ghc/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cabal-install-2.0/ ,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

This seems like a silly question, but how can we install cabal-install now? The latest hackage version 1.24.0.2 has Cabal (>=1.24.2 && <1.25), but it looks like ghc Cabal is now at 2.*. I ran into this because if I get: % cabal install --only-dependencies Resolving dependencies... cabal:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

Wolfgang Jeltsch writes: > Am Samstag, den 22.07.2017, 23:03 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari: >> In addition, there are a number of new features, >> >>  * A new, more type-safe type reflection mechanism >> >>  * The long-awaited Backpack module system >> >>  * Deriving