ShellCheck-0.4.3 fails to install: requires Cabal library version -any && >=1.8 but no suitable version is installed

[moschlar]

Installing with Cabal fails on a CentOS 7 system:

$ cabal install shellcheck
Resolving dependencies...
Failed to install ShellCheck-0.4.3
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
ShellCheck-0.4.3 failed during the configure step. The exception was:
user error (The package requires Cabal library version -any && >=1.8 but no
suitable version is installed.)

$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.16.1.0
using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library 

$ ghc --version
The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.6.3

[koalaman]

I'm not sure why cabal doesn't install the new version of cabal, but updating it pulls in a new version of process that breaks this three years out of date GHC release. The 0.4.3 was specifically supposed to fix this, but I guess the ecosystem moved on.

I tried it on a fresh install and got it working with

cabal update
cabal install process-1.1.0.2 cabal
cabal install shellcheck

[michaelmhoffman]

I got an error with cabal install process-1.1.0.2 cabal. The package name seems to require an uppercase Cabal.

Deleting my ~/.cabal and ~/.ghc and then

cabal update
cabal install process-1.1.0.2 Cabal
cabal install shellcheck

seems to work.

[willemdh]

Tried all of the above but wasn't able to install on CentOS 7.
~/.cabal/bin/shellcheck doesn't exist.

cabal --version
cabal-install version 1.16.1.0
using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library

[koalaman]

Please reopen (with an error message) if this is still a problem.

[kmatt]

yum install ghc-shellcheck-devel got me past the filepath <-> Cabal dependency