Often I have to install cabal onto a machine where I just have GHC 6.8.2 running. I’ve found the following little script quite practical to install the basics. Once you have that installed, it is very easy to install other haskell packages with cabal.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Copyright 2009 Christophe Poucet. All Rights Reserved.
# Author: <christophe (dot) poucet (at) gmail (dot) com> (Christophe Poucet)
# License: BSD3
webroot=http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
install_package() {
local name=$1
local version=$2
wget $webroot/$name/$version/$name-$version.tar.gz
tar xvzf $name-$version.tar.gz
cd $name-$version
runghc Setup configure
runghc Setup build
sudo runghc Setup install
cd ..
rm -rf $name-$version
rm -f $name-$version.tar.gz
}
install_package mtl 1.1.0.2
install_package parsec 3.0.0
install_package network 2.2.0.1
install_package HTTP 4000.0.4
install_package zlib 0.5.0.0
install_package Cabal 1.6.0.2
install_package cabal-install 0.6.2
FYI, the ‘cabal-install’ tarball on hackage includes a script ‘bootstrap.sh’ which does much the same as this (but seems to get by installing fewer packages).
doesn’t bootstrap.sh (bundled with cabal-installed) do exactly this?
I have not looked at the code of bootstrap.sh, but I can say that at the time, bootstrap.sh did not work for me while this did.