How to Install and Uninstall libghc-cabal-helper-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "libghc-cabal-helper-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libghc-cabal-helper-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "libghc-cabal-helper-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libghc-cabal-helper-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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3. Information about the libghc-cabal-helper-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libghc-cabal-helper-dev
Priority: extra
Section: universe/haskell
Installed-Size: 1884
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Haskell Group
Architecture: amd64
Source: haskell-cabal-helper
Version: 0.6.2.0-4build1
Provides: libghc-cabal-helper-dev-0.6.2.0-02552
Depends: libghc-cabal-dev-1.22.5.0-b8080, libghc-base-dev-4.8.2.0-0d6d1, libghc-directory-dev-1.2.2.0-660a7, libghc-filepath-dev-1.4.0.0-f97d1, libghc-ghc-prim-dev-0.4.0.0-6cdc8, libghc-mtl-dev-2.2.1-3af90, libghc-process-dev-1.2.3.0-a2232, libghc-transformers-dev-0.4.2.0-81450, libc6 (>= 2.2.5)
Recommends: cabal-helper
Suggests: libghc-cabal-helper-doc, libghc-cabal-helper-prof
Filename: pool/universe/h/haskell-cabal-helper/libghc-cabal-helper-dev_0.6.2.0-4build1_amd64.deb
Size: 174494
MD5sum: 0108510456e3101309372d48f7728ea1
SHA1: e7cf0c292d83e0e7d868d09506ea2175e2e800ab
SHA256: 38bf52ed0455484c88451426f4e7c5b1198c5e6e833b66479156589c7e813db8
Description-en: Simple interface to some of Cabal's configuration state
cabal-helper provides a library which wraps the internal use of
anexecutable to lift the restrictions imposed by linking against versions of
GHC before 7.10. This has the pleasant side effect of isolating the user
from having to deal with Cabal version changes manually as cabal-helper
can simply recompile it's helper program automatically as needed.
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cabal-helper uses a wrapper executable to compile the actual cabal-helper
executable at runtime while linking against an arbitrary version of
Cabal. This runtime-compiled helper executable is then used to extract
various bits and peices from Cabal's on disk state (dist/setup-config)
written by it's configure command.
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In addition to this the wrapper executable also supports installing any
version of Cabal from hackage in case it cannot be found in any available
package database. The wrapper installs these instances of the Cabal library
into a private package database so as to not interfere with the user's
packages.
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Furthermore the wrapper supports one special case namely reading a state
file for Cabal itself. This is needed as Cabal compiles it's Setup.hs using
itself and not using any version of Cabal installed in any package database.
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This package provides a library for the Haskell programming language.
See http://www.haskell.org/ for more information on Haskell.
Description-md5: ae1b586e0838cbda13c460048b7616be
Homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-helper
Ghc-Package: cabal-helper-0.6.2.0-02552001b20958444558658f8a3b6cda
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu