Added INSTALL instructions about older cabal versions.

IT may be necessary to update cabal, since older versions
don't take into account the (new) possibility of changed
metadata on Hackage.
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John MacFarlane 2015-04-02 11:14:55 -07:00
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@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Quick install
This procedure will install the released version of pandoc,
which will be downloaded automatically from HackageDB.
(Note: 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`,
then try `cabal update && cabal install pandoc` again.)
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':