I've got pugs installed now. I had to tell cabal where I installed my aftermarket libraries:
pinky ~/pugs $ cabal install pugs --extra-lib-dirs=/usr/local/lib --extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/include ..... pinky ~/pugs $ pugs ______ /\ __ \ \ \ \/\ \ __ __ ______ ______ (P)erl 6 \ \ __//\ \/\ \/\ __ \/\ ___\ (U)ser's \ \ \/ \ \ \_\ \ \ \/\ \ \___ \ (G)olfing \ \__\ \ \____/\ \____ \/\_____\ (S)ystem \/__/ \/___/ \/___/\ \/____/ /\____/ Version: 6.2.13.14 \/___/ Copyright 2005-2008, The Pugs Contributors -------------------------------------------------------------------- Web: http://pugscode.org/ Email: perl6-compi...@perl.org Welcome to Pugs -- Perl6 User's Golfing System Type :h for help. Loading Prelude... done. pugs> 'Hello, World!'.say Hello, World! Bool::True pugs> # Hooray