This Cabal Git repository contains the following packages:
- Cabal: the Cabal library package (license)
- cabal-install: the package containing the
cabaltool (license)
The canonical upstream repository is located at https://github.com/haskell/cabal.
Prebuilt binary releases can be obtained from https://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html.
The cabal-install binary download for your platform should contain the cabal executable.
Assuming that you have a pre-existing, recent version of cabal-install, run:
cabal install cabal-install
To get the latest version of cabal-install. (You may want to cabal update first.)
To install the latest version from the Git repository, clone the Git repository and then run:
cabal install --project-file=cabal.project.release cabal-install
Assuming you don't have a pre-existing copy of cabal-install,
look into bootstrap directory.