From 333eafb886b3179dfb8cefadec6326ec19f01f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John MacFarlane Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:14:55 -0700 Subject: Added INSTALL instructions about older cabal versions. IT may be necessary to update cabal, since older versions don't take into account the (new) possibility of changed metadata on Hackage. --- INSTALL | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index d5821339a..2715a8715 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Quick install This procedure will install the released version of pandoc, which will be downloaded automatically from HackageDB. + (Note: if this step fails, and you are using an older version + of the Haskell Platform, e.g. on Debian stable, you may need to + upgrade your version of cabal: `cabal install cabal-install`, + then try `cabal update && cabal install pandoc` again.) + If you want to install a modified or development version of pandoc instead, switch to the source directory and do as above, but without the 'pandoc': -- cgit v1.2.3