Question

Happstack Lite is breaking on me because it’s getting blaze-html version 0.5 and it wants version 0.4. Cabal says that both versions 0.4.3.4 and 0.5.0.0 are installed. I want to remove the 0.5.0.0 and use just the older version. But cabal does not have an “uninstall” command, and when I try ghc-pkg unregister --force blaze-html, ghc-pkg says my command has been ignored.

What do I do?

UPDATE: Don’t believe it. Although ghc-pkg claims to ignore the command, the command isn’t ignored. And with Don Stewart’s accepted answer you can remove exactly the version you wish to eliminate.

Answer 1

You can ghc-pkg unregister a specific version, like so:

$ ghc-pkg unregister --force regex-compat-0.95.1

That should be sufficient.