Haskell Stack package installation error

Question

user$: stack install dictionaries

Error: While constructing the build plan, the following exceptions were encountered:

In the dependencies for dictionaries-0.1.0.0         


        

Answer 1

With the above command, I want to install the dictionaries package globally.

(Preliminary note: by "globally", I will assume you mean globally for your user, as opposed to a system-wide installation.)

dictionaries is not in any Stackage snapshot. As far as I'm aware of, that means you cannot install it globally, as for libraries that is only an option if the package is in a snapshot. Cf. Stack issue #2656 -- while the planned feature described there sounds like what you are trying to do, there is a caveat:

Should also warn when it isn't used with --copy-bins, and if there are targets that don't have executables, as these both indicate a misunderstanding about how it works.

That being so, my suggestion is to install the package per-project, using the packages field with an extra-dep key -- that is, the "most general" solution in jeiea's answer.