cabal-install config file lacking

[guest]

1. cabal-install can't work without a remote package server address.
2. this server should be specified in the ~/.cabal/config file.
3. cabal-install 0.6.2 does not provide such a file.
4. instructions on cabal-install page say that this file will be downloaded through a "cabal update" command.
5. however as no server is provided, "cabal update" can't download anything...
6. Goto step 2...

So now I have cabal-install, but it just does not do its work... Hence the "high" prority.

[duncan]

At some point in that process you must have created a ~/.cabal/config file (but one that does not specify any servers). When the file is missing completely then indeed cabal update will create a ~/.cabal/config containing all defaults.

Try this:

$ rm ~/.cabal/config
$ cabal update

[guest]

Sorry, I am so ashamed... I forgot I added a custom config file. Really sorry to have presented this as a "bug", I should have asked before. It now all works perfectly.

[elga]

*  virgin mobile