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"textContent": "I was going to say that it’s not a dependency of `brillo`, but, yeah, they based `brillo-truetype` on it.\n\nBut apparently some people are still maintaining `freetype2` on Github, so you can try adding a source-repository-package block in your `cabal.project` file pointing at it.\n\nAlso you shouldn’t need to use `cabal install`, dependencies will be pulled automatically when you build your package.",
"title": "Error installing freetype2"
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