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Questions tagged [cabal]

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cabal dies on NixOS in KVM

I set up a NixOS system on KVM and installed the haskelPlatform package. Everything works fine, ghci works fine, but cabal dies without any helpful error message: [michas@nix:~]$ type -a cabal cabal is…
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How to install Pandoc on ArchLinux

Does anyone have suggestions about how to install pandoc on Arch? I am trying to install pandoc-static from here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pandoc-static/, although it appears to be conflicting with my xmonad installation (I use xmonad as a…
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cabal update causes segmentation fault on FreeBSD 10.2

I have installed FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE 32-bit and I am trying to use Haskell on it. I have installed package ghc-7.10.2 with pkg and then installed package hs-cabal-install-1.22.6.0 from /usr/ports/devel/hs-cabal-install. Now, when I run cabal update…
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Cabal using older version when newer is installed

I've just installed and updated cabal, but it is still using the original version (1.16.0.2) instead of the updated 1.22.4.0. The commands I have run, after installation through apt-get: $ cabal update $ cabal install cabal-install cabal This built…
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Error when updating "cabal-install" from cabal cli

I was following this tutorial on how to install cabal on linux. So far, I successfully installed cabal-install from apt: sudo apt install cabal-install However, at the step where they upgrade cabal with cabal itself, I encounter this error: $ cabal…
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Cabal error: Cannot run c compiled programs

I have an old version of cabal-install so I downloaded cabal-install 1.20 and When installing it errors out. Additional note: ghc 7.8.3 OS: CentOS 6.6 Error: Building network-2.4.2.3... ....... ...... ...... usr/bin/ld: cannot find…
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Install specific version of X11 for xmonad?

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…
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How to install pandoc

I tried to install pandoc on manjaro and therefore I installed ghc and caball-install, but I got an error by executing "cabal update" $ cabal update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib:…
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