$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04
$ install libghc6-regex-base-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ghc6 haskell-utils libghc6-mtl-dev Suggested packages: ghc6-prof ghc6-doc haskell-doc libghc6-mtl-doc libghc6-mtl-prof haskell-regex-base-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: ghc6 haskell-utils libghc6-mtl-dev libghc6-regex-base-dev 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 28.5MB of archives. After this operation, 134MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe haskell-utils 1.11 [638kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe ghc6 6.8.2dfsg1-1ubuntu1 [27.7MB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libghc6-mtl-dev 1.1.0.0-2 [173kB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libghc6-regex-base-dev 0.93.1-3 [62.8kB] Fetched 28.5MB in 17s (1669kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package haskell-utils. (Reading database ... 176993 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking haskell-utils (from .../haskell-utils_1.11_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package ghc6. Unpacking ghc6 (from .../ghc6_6.8.2dfsg1-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libghc6-mtl-dev. Unpacking libghc6-mtl-dev (from .../libghc6-mtl-dev_1.1.0.0-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libghc6-regex-base-dev. Unpacking libghc6-regex-base-dev (from .../libghc6-regex-base-dev_0.93.1-3_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up haskell-utils (1.11) ... Setting up ghc6 (6.8.2dfsg1-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up libghc6-mtl-dev (1.1.0.0-2) ... Reading package info from stdin ... done. Saving old package config file... done. Writing new package config file... done. Setting up libghc6-regex-base-dev (0.93.1-3) ... Reading package info from "/usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/regex-base-0.93.1/installed-pkg-config" ... done. building GHCi library /usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/regex-base-0.93.1/ghc-6.8.2/HSregex-base-0.93.1.o... done. Saving old package config file... done. Writing new package config file... done. ----- Guess it's been fixed. -- libghc6-regex-base-dev fails to install because of a ghc-pkg problem https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239641 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs