Thank you Michael, it now works like a charm!

On Sunday, December 4, 2016 at 12:18:01 AM UTC+2, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
> Adding the haskell-stack mailing list, that's more focused than 
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> Short answer: try adding the following to ~/.stack/config.yaml:
>
> package-indices:
> - name: Hackage
>   download-prefix: 
> https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.fpcomplete.com/package/
>   http: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackage.fpcomplete.com/00-index.tar.gz
>
> Longer answer: most likely it wasn't completely stalled, just going _very_ 
> slowly. We've had some reports from users - usually depending on geography 
> - of slow downloads of the cabal file Git repo. The snippet above will 
> switch you into an HTTPS download, which may be faster.
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Nikos Karagiannidis <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am tryning to install Stack on an 64-bit Ubuntu VM (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS).
>>
>> I have followed strictly all the steps that are mentioned in:
>>
>> https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/install_and_upgrade/#ubuntu 
>>
>> the installation completes OK and I get the following stack version 
>> installed:
>>
>> *$ stack --version*
>> *Version 1.2.0, Git revision 241cd07d576d9c0c0e712e83d947e3dd64541c42 
>> (4054 commits) x86_64 hpack-0.14.0*
>>
>> But, when I run "stack setup"  it tries to update package index and then 
>> it stucks there forever!
>>
>> *$ stack setup*
>> *Run from outside a project, using implicit global project config*
>> *Using resolver: lts-7.11 from implicit global project's config file: 
>> /home/nikos/.stack/global-project/stack.yaml*
>> *Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at 
>> https://github.com/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-hashes.git 
>> <https://github.com/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-hashes.git>) ...*
>>
>> any suggestions?
>>
>> thank you in advance!
>>
>> Nikos
>>
>>
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