Cabal install hoogle not working

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votes

I need to configure eclipsefp and install hoogle and scion-browser for setting up a haskell project using mysql.
I tried to install hoogle and scion-browser from Eclipse -> Preference -> Helper executable, and also from the terminal, however unsuccessfully. 

cabal install hoogle

and

cabal install scion-browser

fail, throwing the following:

cabal:codec.compression.zlib: premature end of compressed stream.

Edit: It may be a problem with the cabal version? If I run cabal --version in terminal, it says: cabal-install version 0.14.0 using version 1.14.0 of the Cabal library

If I perform cabal update nothing happens.

However, in Eclipse -> Helper Executables there are two versions available: version 0.14.0 version 1.18.0.2 They are located at different locations, I checked the second one to be used.

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linuxhaskellcabaleclipse-fphoogle
Are you under some kind of proxy ? – Sibi
No, there is no proxy – Steffi
Does "nothing happen" on cabal update or just nothing observable? I.e. is your package database actually updated (check the time stamp)? – Thomas M. DuBuisson

1 Answers

1
votes

in my case, the downloaded package is broken, figured it out by running cabal install -v package-name, removed it manually and finally worked