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.
>
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