I'm trying out the tutorial about making a simple website with scotty but I get an error when I try the command "cabal sandbox init":
cabal: unrecognised command: sandbox (try --help)
Does anyone know what is wrong?
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2what cabal version are you using? 18+? – Michal Seweryn Jan 11 '15 at 13:01
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cabal-install version 1.16.0.2 using version 1.16.0 of the Cabal library – Georgi D. Georgiev Jan 11 '15 at 13:03
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Is your Cabal/cabal-install version new enough? Sandboxes were introduced in Cabal 1.18. You can check the version with command cabal --version.
You might be able to upgrade with these commands:
cabal update
cabal install Cabal cabal-install
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I ran these lines. I got a message like "cabal-install installed version 1.24". But when I run `cabal --version`, I still get `cabal 16.0.2`. Do you know what's going on ? – Stéphane Laurent Jul 20 '16 at 22:07
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same problem [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27826656/cabal-install-cabal-install-doesnt-update-cabal-version-in-osx) – Stéphane Laurent Jul 20 '16 at 22:11
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Solution for Ubuntu [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25902613/upgrade-cabal-on-ubuntu-14-04) – Stéphane Laurent Jul 20 '16 at 23:06
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@rambi: see [Haskell Cabal v2 and Sandbox](https://stackoverflow.com/q/58272366): *There are no sandboxes. You can install packages and they end up in the user's cabal store* – Martijn Pieters Mar 13 '21 at 12:35