Error when installing cabal-install

[MrQubo]

I've tried running

stack install cabal-install

But it failed:

Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:

In the dependencies for cabal-install-3.2.0.0:
    Cabal-2.4.0.1 from stack configuration does not match ==3.2.*  (latest matching version is 3.2.0.0)
    hackage-security must match >=0.6.0.0 && <0.7, but the stack configuration has no specified version  (latest matching version is 0.6.0.0)
    lukko must match >=0.1 && <0.2, but the stack configuration has no specified version  (latest matching version is 0.1.1.2)
needed since cabal-install is a build target.

Some different approaches to resolving this:

  * Recommended action: try adding the following to your extra-deps in /home/arch/.asdf/installs/haskell/8.6.5/stack/global-project/stack.yaml:

- Cabal-3.2.0.0@sha256:d0d7a1f405f25d0000f5ddef684838bc264842304fd4e7f80ca92b997b710874,27320
- hackage-security-0.6.0.0@sha256:69987d46e7b55fe5f0fc537021c3873c5f6f44a6665d349ee6995fd593df8147,11976
- lukko-0.1.1.2@sha256:c9d3fa30fb6ab2ba16e037586ca79be6e57ec5f00381b6ee5f293400dbdf5515,4485

Plan construction failed.

Adding extra-deps, as the message described, fixed the error.
But is this expected behavior or there's something wrong with my installation?

$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 8.6.5

[jakecoble]

Quick fix for anyone else who was having trouble installing cabal-install:

asdf install haskell 8.6.5
asdf global haskell 8.6.5
asdf reshim
stack install cabal-install --resolver lts-14.27

Response to OP:

Nothing wrong with your installation exactly, the README is just missing some detail.

You need to use the correct resolver to fetch from a Stackage snapshot that has all the packages you need. Adding packages to extra-deps fetches those from Hackage, not a Stackage snapshot, so this works around the problem, but using --resolver lts-14.27 solves it without manually editing files. You can also set the default resolver in the config, see: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/yaml_configuration/#resolver

See here for all the snapshots that contain cabal-install (and the ghc versions they support): https://www.stackage.org/lts-14.27/package/cabal-install-2.4.1.0