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James Lovejoy
James Lovejoy

Reputation: 73

Failed installing dependencies with cabal

I am trying to install the dependencies for a project but I am running into this error:

Failed to install base-unicode-symbols-0.2.2.4 
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: base-unicode-symbols-0.2.2.4 failed during     the final install step. 
The exception was: /tmp/pkgConf-base-unicode-symbols-0.2.25614.4: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)

I am running Debian 7 with the latest Haskell-Platform built from source.

How do I fix it? Thanks, James

Upvotes: 3

Views: 493

Answers (1)

Thomas Shaw
Thomas Shaw

Reputation: 81

I just had this problem and after search, found this solution: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1883

To summarize, the problem can be solved by setting your locale. On linux:

export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

was good enough for me.

Upvotes: 2

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