<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Eugene Kirpichov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ekirpichov@gmail.com" target="_blank">ekirpichov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>A friend of mine is trying to install my "timeplotters" (see email signature).</div><div>He's getting a weird error: one of the tools installs fine but the other one fails with the error "Couldn't read cabal file "hashable/<a href="http://1.2.0.0/hashable.cabal" target="_blank">1.2.0.0/hashable.cabal</a>""; curiously, so does running "cabal install cabal-install".</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's a symptom of too old cabal-install that crashes when it encounters certain newer cabal file features. I believe you need to upgrade cabal-install manually (since cabal-install itself will crash trying to do so...).</div>
<div><br></div><div>It's not opening a cabal file directly, it is trying to parse entries in the compressed package list.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div>
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