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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-06-30 14:55:03 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-06-30 14:55:03 -0400
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cabal can now be used to build git-annex.
This is substantially slower than using make, does not build or install documentation, does not run the test suite, and is not particularly recommended, but could be useful to some.
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* [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info) (optional; used to build the docs)
Then just [[download]] git-annex and run: `make; make install`
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+## Using cabal
+
+As a haskell package, git-annex can be built using cabal. For example:
+
+ cabal configure
+ cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin