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| author |  https://openid.stackexchange.com/user/fd55c6e3-966a-4626-865f-5d0f73e1eb88 <Andreas_H@web> | 2012-01-15 20:48:26 +0000 |
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| committer |  admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-01-15 20:48:26 +0000 |
| commit | 728d7e96e0d5267ebf2912d1b3f870e38a4e2c3d (patch) | |
| tree | 5fc3363eb6f7939873cd27984efc6c3c15800046 | |
| parent | 847407f8604798bf8d5c47cf239643801d9e1284 (diff) | |
un-tangle unrelated posts
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diff --git a/doc/bugs/__91__Installation__93___There_is_no_available_version_of_quickcheck_that_satisfies___62____61__2.1.mdwn b/doc/bugs/__91__Installation__93___There_is_no_available_version_of_quickcheck_that_satisfies___62____61__2.1.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a6e2423a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/__91__Installation__93___There_is_no_available_version_of_quickcheck_that_satisfies___62____61__2.1.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Hi, + +I just wanted to install git-annex via cabal, as described in the install document. More specifically, I did this on my Ubuntu Lucid box: + + andreas@antares:~$ sudo aptitude install cabal-install + [...] + andreas@antares:~$ cabal update + andreas@antares:~$ cabal install quickcheck --bindir=$HOME/bin + andreas@antares:~$ cabal install git-annex -v --bindir=$HOME/bin + +However, I got this error: + + /usr/bin/ghc --numeric-version + looking for package tool: ghc-pkg near compiler in /usr/bin + found package tool in /usr/bin/ghc-pkg + /usr/bin/ghc-pkg --version + /usr/bin/ghc --supported-languages + Reading installed packages... + /usr/bin/ghc-pkg dump --global + /usr/bin/ghc-pkg dump --user + Reading available packages... + Resolving dependencies... + selecting + cabal: cannot configure git-annex-3.20120113. It requires quickcheck >=2.1 + There is no available version of quickcheck that satisfies >=2.1 + +which is really strange, because quickcheck 2.4.2 is installed: + + andreas@antares:~$ ls -a .cabal/lib/ + . .. QuickCheck-2.4.2 + +Any help is greatly appreciated :) +Andreas. + +> QuickCheck has to be spelled in mixed case. --[[Joey]] + +Sorry to disagree, this doesn't fix my problem. cabal still complains that no version >= 2.1 is available, even though 2.4.2 is installed. This problem already occurred before I explicitly installed QuickCheck. According to [[install]], the `cabal install git-annex -v --bindir=$HOME/bin` should already take care of the dependencies. + +>> You need to `cabal update` to get the fixed version of git-annex which +>> spells QuickCheck correctly. [[done]] --[[Joey]] |