From 13849c6230188cfbc303348ea3b374be4b60b655 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slotThe Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 10:07:00 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] INSTALL.md: Mention stack upgrade MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Users who are installing stack on systems like Debian stable or Ubuntu may get really old version of stack—much older than we currently support. Thankfully, stack can upgrade itself rather easily with one single command, so mention that. Fixes: https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/303 --- INSTALL.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 9f2606e..d50191b 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ manager. For example, on Debian: $ apt install haskell-stack ``` +If you install stack via this method, it is advisable that you run +`stack upgrade` after installation. This will make sure that you are on +the most recent version of the program, regardless of which version your +distribution actually packages. + If your distribution does not package stack, you can also easily install it via the following command (this is the recommended way to install stack via its [documentation][stack]):