<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello people - trying to get back into Haskell again after previous flirtation which was long enough ago to forget almost everything, it seems.<div><div>I appear to be lost in a mirror maze in trying to work out again how to bring my platform more up to date on Mac OS 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).</div><div><br></div><div><div>The macos link for download at</div><div><a href="http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html">http://www.haskell.org/platform/mac.html</a></div><div>however does not seem to work. I do not get a working installer package just an "Unknown" 204mb file. </div><div>?</div><div><br></div><div>Sniffing around via GHC pages I find this page:</div><div><a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/distribution_packages</a></div><div>where it says</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; ">"For Mac OS X we provide a native system installer, available on the <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 224); text-decoration: none; ">download page</a> for each release. We recommend using these installers "</span></div><div>However the 'download page' link just takes you circularly back to </div><div><a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download</a></div></div><div>?</div><div><br></div><div><div>This page</div><div><a href="http://www.haskell.org/platform/index.html">http://www.haskell.org/platform/index.html</a></div><div>says the the current platform version is 2013.2.0 </div></div><div><br></div><div>From my own past notes I should currently have platform 2011.4.0.0 </div><div>I do definitely have GHC 7.0.4-x86_64</div><div><br></div><div>I also ran 'cabal update' as I dimly remembered that I should do this, and it indicated there was another version of cabal install available by doing a "cabal install cabal-install" but this complains:</div><div><div>"$ cabal install cabal-install</div><div>Resolving dependencies...</div><div>cabal: cannot configure process-1.2.0.0. It requires base >=4.4 && <4.8</div><div>For the dependency on base >=4.4 && <4.8 there are these packages:</div></div><div>. . ."</div><div>I have base 4.3.1.0 (as indicated by GHC-PKG LIST).</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>I thought refreshing the overall package level would be the most straightforward way to update to a consistent state as at least the first step.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully I'm just having a bad day...</div><div><br></div><div>I have two main motivations here (1) general refresh (2) get latest Open-GL stuff - in case that affects the answer.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Can anyone recommend/remind/help with how best to approach this? </div></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks/ Henry</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></body></html>