Added instructions on using cabal to install git-annex on Fedora 18

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@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ Should be as simple as: `yum install git-annex`
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To install the latest version of git-annex on Fedora 18 and later, you can use `cabal`:
<pre>
# Install dependencies
sudo yum install libxml2-devel gnutls-devel libgsasl-devel ghc cabal-install happy alex libidn-devel
# Update the cabal list
cabal update
# Install c2hs, required by dependencies of git-annex, but not automatically installed
cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin c2hs
# Install git-annex
cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin git-annex
</pre>
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Older version? Here's an installation recipe for Fedora 14 through 15.
<pre>
@ -22,4 +37,3 @@ cabal install --bindir=$HOME/bin
Note: You can't just use `cabal install git-annex`, because Fedora does
not yet ship ghc 7.4.