cabal-install: The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage.

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The 'cabal' command-line program simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs.

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Dependencies	array (>=0.1 && <0.2), base (<2.2 \|\| >=3.0 && <4), bytestring (>=0.9), Cabal (>=1.4 && <1.5), containers (>=0.1 && <0.2), directory (>=1 && <1.1), filepath (>=1.0), HTTP (>=3000 && <3002), network (>=1 && <3), old-time (>=1 && <1.1), pretty (>=1 && <1.1), process (>=1 && <1.1), random (>=1 && <1.1), Win32 (>=2 && <3), zlib (>=0.4) [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	2005 Lemmih <lemmih@gmail.com> 2006 Paolo Martini <paolo@nemail.it> 2007 Bjorn Bringert <bjorn@bringert.net> 2007 Isaac Potoczny-Jones <ijones@syntaxpolice.org> 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org>
Author	Lemmih <lemmih@gmail.com> Paolo Martini <paolo@nemail.it> Bjorn Bringert <bjorn@bringert.net> Isaac Potoczny-Jones <ijones@syntaxpolice.org> Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org>
Maintainer	cabal-devel@haskell.org
Category	Distribution
Uploaded	by DuncanCoutts at 2008-06-12T19:49:02Z
Distributions	Arch:3.6.2.0, Debian:3.0.0.0, Fedora:3.8.1.0, FreeBSD:1.22.6.0, LTSHaskell:3.10.3.0, NixOS:3.12.1.0, Stackage:3.10.3.0, openSUSE:3.10.3.0
Reverse Dependencies	4 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables	cabal
Downloads	259830 total (515 in the last 30 days)
Rating	2.5 (votes: 11) [estimated by Bayesian average]
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Status	Docs not available [build log] All reported builds failed as of 2017-01-03 [all 8 reports]

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== cabal install ==

The automatic package manager for Haskell!

Intended usage:

  cabal install xmonad

Just works. Defaults make sense.

It also has all the other commands that runhaskell Setup.hs supports. Eg

  cabal configure
  cabal build
  cabal install
  cabal haddock
  cabal sdist
  cabal clean

See cabal --help for the full list.

There are also these extra commands:

  cabal update         Updates the packages list from the hackage server
  cabal list [pkgs]    List packages with the given search terms in their name
  cabal upgrade [pkgs] Like install but also upgrade all dependencies
  cabal upgrade        Upgrade all installed packages
  cabal upload  [tar]  Upload a package tarball to the hackage server
  cabal check          Check the package for common mistakes

== Dependences ==

Dependencies on standard libs:
   base >= 2.1, process, directory, pretty, bytestring >= 0.9
   network, filepath >= 1.0, Cabal >=1.3.11 && <1.5

Dependencies on other libs:
   zlib >= 0.4, HTTP >= 3000.0 && < 3001.2