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Vivek Rai
Vivek Rai

Reputation: 910

Cabal install package fails weirdly

I access internet through a proxy and have appropriately set up the environment variables. The problem is that whenever I am trying to install any package through cabal, it fails with a

connect: does not exist (Connection Refused) error.

But if I run cabal update -v3, it successfully makes the connection and retrieves the update information.

$ cabal --version   
cabal-install version 1.20.0.2
using version 1.20.0.1 of the Cabal library

Edit: I'm running Ubuntu 14.04.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 112

Answers (1)

Vivek Rai
Vivek Rai

Reputation: 910

Okay. The problem is solved by using -E with sudo command.

sudo -E cabal install <package>

Although, I don't understand why cabal update could work but not cabal install.

Upvotes: 1

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