[racket] racket ppa for ubuntu

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 17:30:53 EST 2011

I just updated this package for 5.1 so if you installed it before you
should be able to update racket (I forget the commands exactly, maybe
just uninstall and reinstall). Unfortunately you still have to use the
-f flag.

On 01/14/2011 01:10 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> It appears this build only works for lucid (10.04). I'll have to make
> new packages for 10.10.
>
> On 01/13/2011 03:10 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> I have built a ppa for racket on Ubuntu. This is pretty alpha so let me
>> know if there are any issues with it (besides the one outlined below).
>>
>> Information page: https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/racket
>>
>> To install do:
>> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plt/racket
>> (Use 'sudo apt-get install python-software-properties' if you dont have
>> add-apt-repository)
>> $ sudo apt-get update # not sure if this is really needed
>> $ sudo apt-get install -f racket
>> You need the -f because there is a conflict between `racket' and
>> `racket-common' about some HISTORY.txt file. I'll try to fix that for
>> the next release.
>>
>> I made the ppa on a lucid (10.04) system and tested there. I'm not 100%
>> it will work on non-lucid systems but I guess it should. Right now there
>> are builds for i386 and amd64.
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