Need the 'dummies' fix to same problem: cabal install (and other cabal commands) says that > "ar" is missing on a fresh nix install. > ... > P.S. geekosaur says this is a ghc problem, not a cabal-install??? Need 'dummies' fix, nevertheless , Also using > > cabal-install-0.14.0 > > ghc-7.4.1-wrapper > > on i686 >