cabal command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

cabal: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cabal: command not found

Solutions to cabal: command not found

How To Fix cabal: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cabal is provided by cabal-install package.

cabal-install is:

The ‘cabal’ command-line program simplifies the process of managing Haskell software by automating the fetching, configuration, compilation and installation of Haskell libraries and programs.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cabal-install

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cabal-install.

sudo apt -y install cabal-install

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cabal-install

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cabal command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.