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#7"cabal install tf-random" failed on Windows 7
I tried to install tf-random-0.5 on Windows 7 with:
> cabal install tf-random
which resulted in the following error:
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: tf-random-0.5 failed during the final install step. The exception was: C:-tf-random-04764.5: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
It seems the problem was due to encoding of "tf-random.cabal" file (especially due to it contains non-ASCII charactors).
I could install it by manually changing the encoding from UTF8 to Shift-JIS (which seems to be the default encoding on my computer).
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This also failed in Docker under Ubuntu 14.04 for me, using the latest Stackage distribution of Haskell, with a similar error.
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: QuickCheck-2.7.6 depends on tf-random-0.5 which failed to install. haskoin-0.2.0 depends on tf-random-0.5 which failed to install. tf-random-0.5 failed during the final install step. The exception was: /tmp/pkgConf-tf-random-010.5: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence)
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I managed to successfully install by adding this line at the beginning of my Dockerfile:
ENV LANG C.UTF-8
