[Haskell-cafe] Failure to install Network.CGI

[Jason Dagit]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Albert Y. C. Lai <trebla at vex.net> wrote:
> On 11-07-17 12:29 AM, william murphy wrote:
>>
>> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id
>> network-2.3.0.2-24fdc6b92867c7236e81708f93cae7d0
>
> Look at the output of "ghc -v" and be very horrified.
>
> The problem is not lacking packages or being outdated. The problem is
> possessing too many packages and upgrading too much. The solution is nuking.

Once you've reinstalled, or "nuked", you can use cabal-dev to never
run into this problem again:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/f3ykj/psa_use_cabaldev_to_solve_dependency_problems/

Jason