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Filipe
Filipe

Reputation: 3408

Permission Denied on Cabal Update

I'm getting a "permission denied" error when I try the following command:

$ cabal update

I'm on Mac OS 10.6. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2475

Answers (1)

ivanm
ivanm

Reputation: 3927

First: are you sure you're running it as the correct user? Have you somehow set in your ~/.cabal/config (or wherever the settings are kept on OSX) that it should do it as a global install?

Also check the permissions of where the tarball will be downloaded to:

$ ls -l ~/.cabal/packages/
$ ls -l ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.*

This should show that your user is indeed allowed to download the list of packages.

Upvotes: 1

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