$PATH is not registering the updated cabal version

Question

After I update cabal

cabal --version

gives me the same old version.

This is what is on my path running OS x Maverics

/Users/peter/.cabal/bin://anaconda/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:~/Library/Haskell/bin:/opt/X11/bin

Now my question is what needs to be done for my to use the updated version of cabal?

Update1.

I updated cabal using:

cabal install cabal cabal-install

Also which cabal returns /usr/bin/cabal

Do you have a cabal binary in your directory /Users/peter/.cabal/bin? Does ~/.cabal/bin/cabal --version worked for you? How is your ~/.cabal/config file look like? — Stephan Kulla
bash: /Users/peter/.cabal/bin/cabal: No such file or directory — user3139545

Mihai Maruseac Mihai Maruseac · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-04T12:16:23

On Mac, the default install location seems to be in ~/Library/Haskell/ (bin/ for binaries, lib/ for libs and so on).

In your $PATH this comes after /usr/bin so that's why you get the executable from there.

Try moving ~/Library/Haskell/bin in front of $PATH or removing the x flag on /usr/bin/cabal :)