I am trying cabal install glib-0.12.3 under my Ubuntu 11.10 using cabal-install 0.10.2. However, it shows the following error messages:
setup: The program gtk2hsC2hs version >=0.13.5 is required but the version
found at /usr/bin/gtk2hsC2hs is version 0.13.4
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
glib-0.12.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
After half an hour's search, I cannot find where this gtk2hsC2hs is. I dug into places like http://code.haskell.org/gtk2hs/tools/c2hs/, but could not seem to find the right version.
How could I upgrade my gtk2hsC2hs? Thanks!
It's part of the gtk2hs-buildtools package.
$ cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools
(maybe with the --global flag, depends on how you want to install packages in general) should provide you with the newest version that should be able to build the latest gtk2hs packages.
Since the old gtk2hsC2hs is in /usr/bin, make sure that the new one is either installed there (replacing the old) or in a directory appearing before /usr/bin in your $PATH. A default cabal install installs executables (on Linux) in $HOME/.cabal/bin, so it would be a good idea to have that the first directory in the $PATH.
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I'm trying to follow along with the Plutus Pioneer lectures, and I'm getting this error
My system:
Ubuntu Linux Docker image running on MacOS.
I installed the Haskell package on the image from here: https://www.haskell.org/platform/linux.html
using this line in my Dockerfile: RUN apt-get install -y haskell-platform
This seems to install Cabal version 2.4.
When I clone the code repository for the lectures: https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-pioneer-program and then go to the week01 directory and try cabal build like in the lecture, I get dependencies not found errors. The first missing dependency is 'aeson', which seems to install if I run cabal install aeson.
The subsequent build attempts fail on dependency 'base' being the wrong version.
Then I thought maybe if I update Cabal to version 3.4 it might help, so I tried cabal install cabal-install, but this also has errors:
Theexception was:ExitFailure (-9)
This may be due to an out-of-memory condition.
So I googled some more and tried this command line: cabal install --ghc-options="+RTS -M600M" -j1 cabal-install from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/46148345/52236
This seems to get further, but now I'm at this error:
ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)
(GHC version 8.6.5 for x86_64-unknown-linux): heap overflow
If anyone has any idea how to fix this it would be appreciated. Do I need to add more RAM to my Docker Ubuntu image? It currently has 1.9GB of memory and 1.7GB free.
thanks,
m
I fixed this by increasing the RTS param:
cabal install --ghc-options="+RTS -M1000M" -j1 cabal-install
Well, actually it compiled everything, but cabal --version still says 2.4, not 3.4. There was this warning too:
Warning: could not create a symlink in /root/.cabal/bin for cabal because the
file exists there already but is not managed by cabal. You can create a
symlink for this executable manually if you wish. The executable file has been
installed at /root/.cabal/bin/cabal
I'm new to Haskell, trying to write a program for compiler construction class.
I installed the haskell-platform package on my ubuntu 13.10, and then (without messing around with anything after installing haskell platform) tried to run the following command:
$ sudo cabal install bnfc
which results with:
Resolving dependencies...
Configuring BNFC-2.6.0.3...
cabal: The following installed packages are broken because other packages they
depend on are missing. These broken packages must be rebuilt before they can
be used.
package process-1.1.0.2 is broken due to missing package
directory-1.2.0.1-508733a890139bbedb8aa76468431462
Failed to install BNFC-2.6.0.3
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
BNFC-2.6.0.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
As I try installing package directory it says the package is already installed.
Can anyone help?
I also am using Ubuntu 13.10 with the haskell platform package, and bnfc installs for me.
There are a few things you can check....
Don't use sudo with cabal install (by default cabal installs packages in your own home directory, using sudo might be causing trouble by giving the wrong file ownerships, or perhaps trying to put files in /root, or even overwriting /usr stuff)
Rename ~/.cabal/ and ~/.ghc/, and rebuild them by running "cabal update" (You may need to re-add ~/.cabal/bin/cabal from the moved location after the move). These hold installed packages and their info.... Since you have a new vanilla install, these should basically be empty, although the meta info in them may be corrupt. (if for some reason this makes things worse, you can always restore the original directory.... If it solves the problem, you can delete the original .cabal and .ghc)
You can get more info about why a package isn't installing by doing the following
cabal unpack bnfc #This will download and unpack the source code
cd BNFC-2.6.0.3 #enter the newly created source directory
cabal configure #This checks that all system dependencies are met
cabal build #This builds the package
cabal install #This installs the package in ~/.cabal/
(You may have to iterate to another package if a dependency isn't met)
I think 2. may solve your problem, as the error message you showed implies that the build process is hooked on finding a very specific version of the directory package, rather than the latest one. This happened to me once and cleaning out .cabal solved the problem for me.
I am currently trying to update Cabal (1.14.0, cabal-install at version 0.14.0) by doing
cabal install cabal-install
However, this gives me an ExitFailure1 with the error
setup: The program ghc version >=6.4 is required but the
version of /usr/bin/ghc could not be determined.
But I'm definitely running a version of GHC that is greater than that.
$ /usr/bin/ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.2
It might be important that I'm on OSX 10.8 and that I installed Haskell through the Haskell Platform download for Mac.
Does anyone have advice on how to fix or work around this issue? I haven't been able to find any documentation on this problem.
Since you're on a Mac, why not try installing the excellent Homebrew package manager? Add /usr/local/bin to your PATH, and then it's just brew install cabal-install.
You can even brew install ghc haskell-platform.
To upgrade the package list, use brew upgrade, then you can see what needs updating with brew outdated and update them with brew update.
Of course, you can name individual packages to update also, and specify versions of packages. Homebrew keeps the "recipes" (Ruby scripts) for package management in its own git repository (by default in /usr/local).
Then you can get on with what you really wanted to do in the first place...write some code! (or build, in your case)
I have managed to install cairo, but when I run cabal install svgcairo I get the following error:
setup.exe: The pkg-config package librsvg-2.0 version >=2.16.0 is required but it could not be found.
I'm on windows 8 x64, with cabal version 1.16.02 and ghc 7.6.3.
You need to install librsvg in a location that ghc can find first. Check out http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/download/ for downloads, but you might have to build it from source yourself, which is beyond the scope of this answer. Then just make sure that wherever you've installed the library is on your path and that pkg-config can find it, and you should be good to go.
hi i'm trying to install, (without having to update or install the latest compiler),reactive-banana-wx and one of the requirement's are failing
cabal install reactive-banana-wx
and heres the error
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.4...
setup: failed
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
reactive-banana-wx-0.6.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install.
wx-0.90.0.1 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install.
wxc-0.90.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
wxcore-0.90.0.3 depends on wxc-0.90.0.4 which failed to install
when i try to cabal install wxcore ,wx or wxc they all say failed and point towards wxc being required.
here's the error
cabal install wxc
Resolving dependencies...
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/Setup.hs, /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/Main.o )
Linking /tmp/wxc-0.90.0.419410/wxc-0.90.0.4/dist/setup/setup ...
Configuring wxc-0.90.0.4...
setup: failed
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
wxc-0.90.0.4 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
ExitFailure 1
here's my compiler info if it would be useful
ghc -v
Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Version 7.0.4, for Haskell 98, stage 2 booted by GHC version 7.0.4
I've got the same error trying to install phooey with ghc 7.4.1 on Debian tonight. The reason is a bug in the package wxc-0.90.0.4 and it should affect all wxHaskell-based packages. You can fix it, there is no need to downgrade your wxc package...
The easiest way to reproduce it is to do
cabal install wxc
or
cabal install glade
It might be a good idea to make sure that all prerequisites are in place, before you do it. wxc depends on a number of cabal and Linux packages and all of them should be installed and compiled... I did it in the most stupid way possible, just by running
cabal install wxc
and reading error messages which it spills out. This sweetie usually tells you what it wants... For instance, if it complains about cabal package x, just do cabal install x. If it complains about Linux package y, then use your Linux package manager and install the development version of this package, which is called normally lib<y>-dev in Debian. So, for instance, if
cabal install wxc
gives you an error saying that package gtk+2.0 is missing, you want to do
apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
The same story with cairo, glade2 and other GTK-related libraries
When you are green with all prerequisites, you want to install wxWidgets-2.9, which is currently in the Development stage... so, it doesn't have any binaries for Linux and you should build it yourself. Download the source code from wxWidgets website and build it. It is pretty easy to do, just:
untar/unzip the source code to your favorite directory
run ./config
run ./make
If you are on wxc-0.90.0.4, at this moment you should encounter our little bug... To keep the long story short, it is in the file eljpen.cpp, which you can find in
~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/wxc/0.90.0.4/wxc-0.90.0.4.tar.gz
Open the archive, go to the line 159 in the file and replace *_ref = NULL; with _ref = NULL or anything else what makes more sense. Then recreate the archive in the same place with the fixed eljpen.cpp file in it.
run ./make
It should work now.
run sudo make install (normally, you should have root privileges to insatll wxWidgets library...).
after it is done try to do
cabal install wx
again. It should be working now. I guess, after that you can enjoy your reactive-banana-wx, wxHaskell, phooey, etc.
PS http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3576397&group_id=73133&atid=536845. Why didn't I find it earlier? :/
I'v solved this problem on Lubuntu 12.10 so:
sudo cabal info wx
Synopsis: wxHaskell
Versions available: 0.11.1.2, 0.12.1.4, 0.12.1.5, 0.12.1.6, 0.13.2,
0.13.2.1, 0.13.2.3, 0.90, 0.90.0.1 (and 11 others)
I picked out different versions of wxHaskell, but only 0.13.2.3 was right.
sudo cabal install wx-0.13.2.3
...and everything has compiled and installed. Then I could install:
sudo cabal install reactive-banana-wx -fbuildExamples
That's no depends on the version of your Glasgow Haskell Compiler or the sort of your Linux.