[Haskell-cafe] Installing pandoc without root

Simon Marechal simon at banquise.net
Sun Nov 10 13:14:26 UTC 2013


On 11/10/2013 01:14 PM, Theo Moore wrote:
> Can someone guide me through getting pandoc up and running without
> root access? The system is Debian 3.2.41-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

A possible solution is to download the zlib1g-dev package, and unpack it
somewhere, using the dpkg command. Then you can alter cabal
configuration so that it looks for headers at the given place. You
should not need the headers once the package is compiled, so you can
safely remove them.


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