Hi,
    I get this error. I think have zlib installed! what package should I
install to compile cabal on my machine (ubuntu - 8.04)

Configuring cabal-install-0.5.2...
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
zlib >=0.4

status of zlib on my machine is as following

bahs$ aptitude search zlib
p   gambas2-gb-compress-bzlib2      - The Gambas bzlib2
component
p   gambas2-gb-compress-zlib        - The Gambas zlib compression
component
p   libcompress-raw-zlib-perl       - low-level interface to zlib
compression l
p   libcompress-zlib-perl           - Perl module for creation and
manipulation
p   libio-compress-zlib-perl        - Perl interface to
zlib
p   libio-zlib-perl                 - IO:: style interface to
Compress::Zlib
p   libjzlib-java                   - Reimplementation of zlib in pure
java
i   libzlib-ruby                    - transitional dummy
package
v   libzlib-ruby1.8
-
i   zlib-bin                        - compression library - sample
programs
i   zlib1g                          - compression library -
runtime
p   zlib1g-dbg                      - compression library -
development
i A zlib1g-dev                      - compression library -
development
i   zlibc                           - Uncompressing C Library


Regards,
Vikrant


2008/8/5 jinjing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> What I did was to compile from source:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/CabalInstall
>
> notice the darcs repo?
>
> http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/
>
> I used
>
>    runghc Setup configure --user --prefix=$HOME
>
> to keep packages in user space, i.e. inside ~/.cabal folder.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Sebastian Menge
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:10:16 +0530
> > schrieb Vikrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> well, How do I get cabal! on my ubuntu installation it gives me error
> >> saying libghc6-cabal-dev depends ghc < 6.6.1 but 6.8.2 installed!
> >
> > Thats a known bug, but I cant remeber my workaround. Anyways I have
> > installed
> >
> > libhugs-cabal-bundled
> >
> > IIRC from a gutsy-repository
> >
> > HTH, Sebastian.
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