Parsec is designed from scratch as an industrial-strength parser library. It is simple, safe, well documented, has extensive libraries and good error messages, and is also fast. It is defined as a monad transformer that can be stacked on arbitrary monads, and it is also parametric in the input stream type. This requires ghc, haskell-transformers, haskell-mtl, and haskell-text. After uninstalling, run this command to unregister the package from the ghc package database: ghc-pkg recache