hackport-0.8.0.0: cabal/README.md

# Cabal

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This Cabal Git repository contains the following packages:

 * [Cabal](Cabal/README.md): the Cabal library package ([license](Cabal/LICENSE))
 * [Cabal-syntax](Cabal-syntax/README.md): the `.cabal` file format library ([license](Cabal-syntax/LICENSE))
 * [cabal-install](cabal-install/README.md): the package containing the `cabal` tool ([license](cabal-install/LICENSE))

The canonical upstream repository is located at
https://github.com/haskell/cabal.

Installing cabal-install (by downloading the binary)
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Prebuilt binary releases can be obtained from https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html.
The `cabal-install` binary download for your platform should contain the `cabal` executable.

Installing cabal-install (preferred, with cabal-install)
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Assuming that you have a pre-existing, recent version of `cabal-install`, run:

```
cabal install cabal-install
```

To get the latest version of `cabal-install`. (You may want to `cabal update` first.)

To install the latest version from the Git repository, clone the
Git repository and then run:

```
cabal install --project-file=cabal.project.release cabal-install
```

Installing cabal-install without cabal-install
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Assuming you don't have a pre-existing copy of `cabal-install`,
look into [`bootstrap`](bootstrap) directory.