[Agda] Install failure

[Christoph Herrmann]

Hi,

On 23 Mar 2011, at 12:05, gallais @ EnsL.org wrote:

> My bad: the package name is cabal-install

got a step further, but then:

Registering zlib-0.5.3.1...
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Agda-2.2.10 depends on terminfo-0.3.1.3 which failed to install.
haskeline-0.6.4.0 depends on terminfo-0.3.1.3 which failed to install.
haskell-src-exts-1.9.6 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
terminfo-0.3.1.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
---------
This is just to demonstrate that it is not at all simple to install!

I will end this conversation now and continue with my own 
more or less random hacks and hoping for good luck to get 
a working version of Agda again. 

Cheers

> 
> --
> gallais
> 
> 
> 
> On 23 March 2011 12:53, Christoph Herrmann <ch at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On 23 Mar 2011, at 11:20, gallais @ EnsL.org wrote:
>> 
>>> An improvement could maybe be to split the document into 3
>>> installation instructions
>>> files, each one targeting a specific OS? If you want to install Agda
>>> on a brand new
>>> squeeze and don't want to touch to the source code, you basically need to do:
>>> 
>>> [As root] apt-get install zlib1g-dev cabal emacs ghc6 haskell-mode
>> 
>> cabal can not be found by apt-get, neither on MacOSX nor on Ubuntu-Linux 10.10:
>> ---
>> ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev cabal emacs ghc6 haskell-mode
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Unable to locate package cabal
>> ---
>> Yes, I upgraded and updated apt-get before.
>> 
>> So, it is not that simple.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>>> [Add to your .bashrc as user] export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/.cabal/bin
>>> [As user] cabal update
>>> [As user] cabal install happy haskell-src-exts-1.9.6 Agda
>>> [As user] agda-mode setup
>>> 
>>> The only counter-intuitive thing to do being that you need to modify
>>> your path (even
>>> if it is cabal that chose to put the binaries in this directory)..
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> --
>>> gallais
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 23 March 2011 10:27, Bengt Nordstrom <bengt at chalmers.se> wrote:
>>>> The general situation seem to be that we have a good way to install
>>>> Agda for (experienced) Haskell programmers.
>>>> 
>>>> But it would be nice if it was easy for people who (like myself) know
>>>> nothing about cabal, happy etc to install the system.
>>>> As a naive person, I would like to have a one click install for each
>>>> of the major operating systems. How can we achieve this?
>>>> The current descriptions of the process takes more than a page and a
>>>> lot of alternatives.
>>>> 
>>>> In fact, it would be nice to have a zero click install: You should be
>>>> able to load and edit Agda programs in your browser. Is anybody
>>>> working on this?
>>>> 
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Bengt
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:47 AM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 3/22/11 4:19 PM, gallais @ EnsL.org wrote:
>>>>>> Well, cabal info is still unable to tell me which version of happy I'm using
>>>>> 
>>>>> You should be able to do `which happy` and `happy --version` to find out
>>>>> (depending on how you mean).
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unfortunately, cabal (actually ghc-pkg, IIRC) can't keep track of which
>>>>> executables it's installed, it only keeps track of libraries. But then
>>>>> cabal doesn't strive to be a general package manager for Haskell; it's
>>>>> more of a replacement for gmake, albeit leaning in the direction of
>>>>> package managers.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Live well,
>>>>> ~wren
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>> 
>> 

--
 Dr. Christoph Herrmann
 University of St Andrews, Scotland/UK
 phone: office: +44 1334 461629, home: +44 1334 478648 
 email: ch at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk,  c.herrmann at virgin.net
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