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Added INSTALL instructions about older cabal versions.
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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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jgm committed Apr 3, 2015
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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':
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