[racket] racket ppa for ubuntu

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 14 15:10:41 EST 2011

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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