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I wanted to compile xmonad from source, so I checked out the code and ran the first command from the README.

$ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --user --prefix=$HOME
Configuring xmonad-0.12...
Setup.lhs: At least the following dependencies are missing:
X11 >=1.5 && <1.7

Apparently haskell wants a specific version of X11. This kind of scares me, as whenever I touch video-specific items like Xorg or video drivers, I tend to completely bork my system.

  1. Is it safe to install a specific newer version of X11?
  2. How would I do so? Is it possible to use apt-get?
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Okay I'm still not sure how this worked, but I was able to use cabal to install the correct version of X11. It doesn't seem to conflict with the version reported by Xorg -version.

cabal install x11
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