Cannot successfully install plot Haskell - haskell

Question

I'd like to do some graphing in my Haskell program, but when I try to install plot I get the following error.
Preprocessing library plot-0.2.3.4...
lib/Graphics/Rendering/Plot/Figure/Simple.hs:37:8:
Could not find module ‘Numeric.Container’
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lib/Graphics/Rendering/Plot/Types.hs:25:8:
Could not find module ‘Data.Packed.Vector’
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lib/Graphics/Rendering/Plot/Types.hs:26:8:
Could not find module ‘Data.Packed.Matrix’
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cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
plot-0.2.3.4 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
Following this issue I updated hmatrix to version 0.17.0.1 but still get the same error. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Are you managing the project with cabal, or are you just installing into the global package space?
I would move to either using cabal or stack to manage the dependencies.
FWIW I've verified that plot-0.2.3.4 will compile with hmatrix-0.16.1.5 using the stack resolver lts-3.7 so I don't think it's a problem with hmatrix.
If you are using cabal, post your cabal file and we can figure out how to make it work. Otherwise, I would recommend creating a stack project, eg.
run stack new project-name
edit project-name.cabal and add plot to the build-depends: fields
run stack build

Answer 2

Configuring hmatrix-0.16.1.5...
setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.4.0-x86_64-linux-ghc-7.10.2: Missing dependencies on
foreign libraries:
* Missing C libraries: blas, lapack
Found the libblas library I needed via:
sudo apt-cache search blas | grep dev
from: https://github.com/albertoruiz/hmatrix/blob/master/INSTALL.md#linux
sudo apt-get install libblas-dev libgsl0-dev liblapack-dev libatlas-base-dev
setup: The pkg-config package 'cairo' version >=1.2.0 is required but it could
not be found.
After some putzing around on the wiki pages for gtk2hs
sudo apt-get install libghc-gtk-dev
Now it should install successfully.
stack install plot
Intermediate errors are from me re-attempting stack install plot. These instructions assume Ubuntu 14.04 but you can translate what packages you need to Mac OS X / Windows.
As the other poster said, this was with the 0.16 version of hmatrix.