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| − | The cabal-install package provides the <code>cabal</code> command-line tool which simplifies the process of managing Haskell software |
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| − | by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs. |
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| − | Those packages must be prepared using [[Cabal]] and should be present at [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage]. |
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| + | The cabal-install package provides the <code>cabal</code> command-line tool which simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs. |
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| + | Those packages must be prepared using [[Cabal]] and should be present at [http://hackage.haskell.org/ Hackage]. |
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| + | See https://cabal.readthedocs.io/ for more info. |
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| − | == Usage == |
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| − | === Installing a package === |
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| − | Once you have the tool installed, installing other packages is easy. |
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| − | The first thing to do is to give the command: |
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| − | cabal update |
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| − | This will download the most recent list of packages; this must be done from time to time, to get the latest version of each package, when installing. |
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| − | To install Cabal packages from [http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html Hackage] use: |
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| − | cabal install foo |
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| − | Other common variations: |
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| − | cabal install Package in the current directory |
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| − | cabal install foo Package from the hackage server |
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| − | cabal install foo-1.0 Specific version of a package |
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| − | cabal install 'foo < 2' Constrained package version |
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| − | cabal install foo bar baz Several packages at once |
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| − | cabal install foo --dry-run Show what would be installed |
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| − | One thing to be especially aware of, is that the packages are installed locally by default, whereas the commands |
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| − | runhaskell Setup configure |
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| − | runhaskell Setup build |
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| − | runhaskell Setup install |
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| − | install globally by default. |
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| − | If you install a package globally, the local packages are ignored. The default for cabal-install can be modified by editing the configuration file. |
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| − | Help about cabal-install can be obtained by giving commands like: |
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| − | cabal --help |
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| − | cabal install --help |
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| − | === The cabal-install configuration file === |
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| − | You can edit the cabal configuration file to set defaults: |
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| − | ~/.cabal/config (for *nix based systems) |
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| − | For Windows there are different locations for different versions of Windows (just to make things easy). To get the directory cabal actually uses, start GHCi and give the following commands: |
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| − | :m System.Directory |
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| − | getAppUserDataDirectory "cabal" |
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| − | ==== Things to put in the config file ==== |
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| − | To turn on --global by default: |
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| − | user-install: False |
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| − | The root-cmd configuration parameter can be used to automatically run cabal-install with root privileges on *nix based systems, when needed: |
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| − | root-cmd: sudo |
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| − | == Installation == |
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| − | If you have the [http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ Haskell Platform] installed, you already have cabal-install; no further action is needed. |
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| − | [http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ http://hackage.haskell.org/platform//icons/button-100.png] |
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| − | === Windows === |
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| − | Get a pre-built <code>cabal.exe</code> from: |
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| − | http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html |
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| − | You must put the <code>cabal.exe</code> in a directory that is on your <code>%PATH%</code>, for example <code>C:\Program Files\Haskell\bin</code>. |
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| − | === Unix === |
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| − | Download the latest cabal-install tarball from: |
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| − | http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html |
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| − | It includes a shell script <code>bootstrap.sh</code> that you can run to download and install the other dependencies. |
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| − | Note this assumes you have the zlib C library and its header files installed. Those header files are usually in a native system package like <code>zlib-devel</code> (On debian-based systems it is <code>zlib1g-dev</code>). You should also have the Haskell packages <code>parsec</code> and <code>network</code> installed. If you installed GHC via your native system package manager then you may also need to use it to install these two packages. (On debian-based systems they are called <code>libghc6-parsec-dev</code> and <code>libghc6-network-dev</code>.) |
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| − | tar -zxf cabal-install-0.6.2.tar.gz |
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| − | cd cabal-install-0.6.2 |
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| − | ./bootstrap.sh |
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| − | If this completes successfully you will have the cabal binary in <code>~/.cabal/bin</code>. You should either add this directory to your <code>$PATH</code> or copy the cabal program to some location that is on your <code>$PATH</code>, eg <code>~/bin</code>. |
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| − | to get the current list of package from hackage you should now run: |
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| − | cabal update |
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| − | By default the cabal tool will install programs in <code>~/.cabal/bin</code>. If you decided not to put this directory on your <code>$PATH</code> then you can get cabal to symlink binaries into another directory, eg <code>~/bin</code>. To use this feature edit <code>~/.cabal/config</code> and see the <code>symlink-bindir field</code>. Note that the <code>~/.cabal/config</code> file is not created until you run a cabal command for the first time, eg <code>cabal update</code>. |
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| − | == Error reporting == |
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| − | Errors in cabal-install can be reported at |
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| − | [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ the Hackage Wiki and Bug Tracker] |
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| − | == FAQ == |
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| − | === I just installed packages, but now the packages are not found === |
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| − | This happens when you install a package globally, and the previous packages were installed locally. Note that cabal-install install locally by default and the "runhaskell Setup" commands install globally by default. |
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| − | === How can I uninstall packages? === |
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| − | There is no "cabal uninstall" command. You can only unregister packages with [[ghc-pkg]]: |
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| − | ghc-pkg unregister |
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| − | == See also == |
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| − | * [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall cabal-install] page on the Cabal/Hackage development site. |
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| − | * [[Hack-Nix]] alternative based on the [http://nixos.org Nix] package manager. |
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| − | * [[Capri]] a wrapper over cabal-install and [[ghc-pkg]] to operate in project-private mode; similar to [[Hack-Nix]] but does not involve any extra software.. |
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Latest revision as of 10:10, 10 March 2021
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The cabal-install package provides the cabal command-line tool which simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs.
Those packages must be prepared using Cabal and should be present at Hackage.
See https://cabal.readthedocs.io/ for more info.