[commit: Cabal] master: Note in the README that you can install using the cabal program (3fd49b3)

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Tue Jan 3 00:48:42 CET 2012


Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/packages/Cabal

On branch  : master

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/3fd49b380adf2025bd8993b1e8060253d5fa3c91

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commit 3fd49b380adf2025bd8993b1e8060253d5fa3c91
Author: Duncan Coutts <duncan at community.haskell.org>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 13:31:13 2011 +0000

    Note in the README that you can install using the cabal program

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 Cabal/README |   11 +++++++++++
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diff --git a/Cabal/README b/Cabal/README
index 5713b62..457b365 100644
--- a/Cabal/README
+++ b/Cabal/README
@@ -10,6 +10,17 @@ the `cabal-install` package in addition to this library.
 Installation instructions for the Cabal library
 ===============================================
 
+If you have the `cabal` program already
+---------------------------------------
+
+In this case it's simple, just
+
+    cabal install
+
+Of course, if you don't have an existing version of the `cabal` program
+then to get one you'd first need to install the Cabal library! To avoid
+this bootstrapping problem, you can install the Cabal library directly:
+
 Installing as a user (no root or administer access)
 ---------------------------------------------------
 





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