Did you recently install something using the sudo command? That may have changed the permissions/ownership of the pacckage.conf.
Doaitse On 8 aug 2009, at 03:09, Brian Lewis wrote: > I appreciate all the hard work that went into WxHaskell, and the > effort > going into its continued development. But: > > $ cabal install wx > ... > Writing new package config file... > ghc-pkg: /usr/lib/ghc-6.10.4/./package.conf: > you don't have permission to modify this file > > Is there some explanation for this hostile behavior? Every other > cabalized package I've installed in the past year has been > satisified to > live in ~/.cabal and not mess with other files behind the back of my > distro's package management system. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and > focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > wxhaskell-users mailing list > wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ wxhaskell-users mailing list wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-users