Questions tagged [cabal]

Cabal (Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries) is a framework defining a common interface to build Haskell applications in a portable way.

Haskell Cabal is a packaging and distribution library for Haskell applications.

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What is a good method to solve cabal install problems?

I've used the cabal package manager for Haskell programs to install libraries and new projects that I've cloned from some repositories. More often than not, I keep running into problems. Most projects make installing them seem super easy, but in my…
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Attempting to install Xmonad - package hidden

Probably just a big case of PICNIC, but when I tried to install Xmonad, I get errors stating Could not load module ‘XMonad’ It is a member of the hidden package ‘xmonad-0.15’. You can run ‘:set -package xmonad’ to expose it. (Note: this unloads all…
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Install haskell in existing msys2

Is there any simple way to install haskell / cabal / stack in an existing msys2 installation? I can't find one. Note: Apparently it is possible to install both at the same time using MinGHC, see here.
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trouble installing yesod

i installed ghc and cabal on my centos 6 machine. both seem to be in working order. but when I try to install yesod with cabal, i get this: [root@localhost yesod]# cabal install yesod Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure conduit-0.2.1.…
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How to update pandoc on centos linux?

I dowloaded cabal-install-1.20.0.3.tar.gz file and extracted when I try to run am getting following errors.My aim is to update pandoc. Now I have pandoc 1.9 but I need 1.12 version.To update pandoc am trying to update cabal library.But no…
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Installing leksah from source

I tried to install leksah via cabal but I got tons of different build errors so I tried to build it from git. I followed this guide http://www.leksah.org/download.html and I was able to build binary-shared,ltk and leksah-server but when I try to…
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Fedora 16: Failed to install scion-browser with cabal

It seems like on Fedora 16 cabal isn't able to install scion-browser from hackage because of some incompatibilities with respect to Fedora's shared objects. When I run cabal install scion-browser I get: ... Loading package terminfo-0.3.2.3 ...…
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Installing Haskell math-functions-0.3.1.0 hangs

Trying to install Haskell datasets (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/datasets). The installation hangs when building math-functions-0.3.1.0. Tried to install individual dependencies, and again had the same result at building …
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