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@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ Quick install
This procedure will install the released version of pandoc,
which will be downloaded automatically from HackageDB.
+
+ If this step fails, and you are using an older version
+ of the Haskell Platform, e.g. on Debian stable, you may need to
+ upgrade your version of cabal:
+
+ cabal install cabal-install
+ ~/.cabal/bin/cabal update
+ ~/.cabal/bin/cabal install pandoc
+
If you want to install a modified or development version
of pandoc instead, switch to the source directory and do
as above, but without the 'pandoc':
@@ -66,11 +75,7 @@ Quick install
--extra-include-dirs=/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/51.1/include \
-funicode_collation text-icu pandoc-citeproc
-The cabal installation procedure does not generate man pages.
-To build the `pandoc` man pages, build pandoc with the
-`make-pandoc-man-pages` flag, and then use the command
-`make-pandoc-man-pages` from the pandoc source directory.
-This will create the man pages in `man/man1` and `man/man5`.
+The build process will create man pages in `man/man1` and `man/man5`.
To build the `pandoc-citeproc` man pages, go to the pandoc-citeproc
build directory, and
@@ -209,4 +214,3 @@ To use a smaller sample size so the benchmarks run faster:
To run just the markdown benchmarks:
cabal bench --benchmark-options='markdown'
-