<div dir="ltr"><div><div>and ironically this same problem just happened to me right now ;-)<br></div>trying to upgrade to GHC 7.6.1 on fedora 17 as I guess you tried too.<br><br></div>I did that and it appears to work fine:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1137#issuecomment-11142007">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1137#issuecomment-11142007</a><br><div><br>emmanuel<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Emmanuel Touzery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:etouzery@gmail.com" target="_blank">etouzery@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    <div>looks like there is a bug about this:<br>
      <a href="https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1137" target="_blank">https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1137</a><br>
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      seems you need to reinstall cabal or something like that.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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      On 19.12.2012 14:58, Alexander _ wrote:<br>
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        <div>Hello,<br>
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        <div>I use:</div>
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          The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.1<br>
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        <div>Thank you.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2012/12/19 Emmanuel Touzery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:etouzery@gmail.com" target="_blank">etouzery@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
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              <div>One more thing... For my HTTP needs I&#39;ve been using
                without problems Network.HTTP.Conduit:<br>
                <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/http-conduit/1.2.1/doc/html/Network-HTTP-Conduit.html" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/http-conduit/1.2.1/doc/html/Network-HTTP-Conduit.html</a><br>

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              but I didn&#39;t research in which ways these two packages
              differ.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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                  Emmanuel<br>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 8:35
                    AM, Emmanuel Touzery <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:etouzery@gmail.com" target="_blank">etouzery@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
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                          <div>Hello,<br>
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                           which is your GHC version? On the page for
                          that package it is written that it was
                          successfully built for GHC-7.6. Maybe your GHC
                          version is too old? Otherwise I don&#39;t have a
                          clue.<br>
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                          <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.6" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/package/HTTP-4000.2.6</a><br>
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                            <div>On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:58 PM,
                              Alexander _ <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:anotherworldofworld@gmail.com" target="_blank">anotherworldofworld@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span>
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                                  <div>Hello,<br>
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                                  <div>I try to install HTTP package. I
                                    make:</div>
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                                    cabal install HTTP and got error:</div>
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                                  <div>[ 1 of 18] Compiling
                                    Network.HTTP.Base64 (
                                    Network/HTTP/Base64.hs,
                                    dist/build/Network/HTTP/Base64.o )<br>
                                    [ 2 of 18] Compiling
                                    Network.HTTP.MD5Aux (
                                    Network/HTTP/MD5Aux.hs,
                                    dist/build/Network/HTTP/MD5Aux.o )<br>
                                    [ 3 of 18] Compiling Paths_HTTP (
                                    dist/build/autogen/Paths_HTTP.hs,
                                    dist/build/Paths_HTTP.o )<br>
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                                    dist/build/autogen/Paths_HTTP.hs:21:13:
                                    Not in scope: `catch&#39;<br>
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                                    dist/build/autogen/Paths_HTTP.hs:22:13:
                                    Not in scope: `catch&#39;<br>
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                                    dist/build/autogen/Paths_HTTP.hs:23:14:
                                    Not in scope: `catch&#39;<br>
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                                    dist/build/autogen/Paths_HTTP.hs:24:17:
                                    Not in scope: `catch&#39;<br>
                                    cabal: Error: some packages failed
                                    to install:<br>
                                    HTTP-4000.2.6 failed during the
                                    building phase. The exception was:<br>
                                    ExitFailure 1<br>
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                                  <div>How can i install it correctly?</div>
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                                  <div>Thank you.</div>
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