Hoogle Data Fails

[tdimiduk]

With a default install of Ceh, hoogle appears to be broken. It will install fine, but then it needs to fetch data and cannot because the store is read only:

$ hoogle data
hoogle: /nix/store/w6lwbndblqn4ax3gl6agqm0l0slwkfgi-haskell-hoogle-ghc7.6.3-4.2.19-profiling/share/hoogle-4.2.19/databases: createDirectory: permission denied (Permission denied)

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 if that is important, and am happy to provide any other information that is useful.

$ uname -a
Linux owl 3.5.0-32-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 29 20:23:04 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[tdimiduk]

Oops, I probably should have posted this on the Ceh issue tracker, I am closing this, I posted this in the wrong window.

[peti]

Hoogle supports the --datadir flag to override the default location to something that's more appropriate. I guess, Ceh would have to provide that flag when calling Hoogle? I'm not familiar with Ceh, though, so I'm just guessing.

[tdimiduk]

Yes, I intended to submit this bug to ceh, but I didn't realize I grabbed
the wrong browser window. Sorry for the mistake. Ceh does have the an
alternate executable that did the right thing, I posted an issue there and
they have revised the docs. Thanks for telling me about the --datadir flag
though, that is good to know.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Peter Simons notifications@github.comwrote:

Hoogle supports the --datadir flag to override the default location to
something that's more appropriate. I guess, Ceh would have to provide that
flag when calling Hoogle? I'm not familiar with Ceh, though, so I'm just
guessing.

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[berdario]

Since this is the 3rd/4th result when googling "nixos hoogle", For other people that might stumble upon this:

What you probably want is the hoogle-local package, that comes installed with a local hoogle database already available