[racket] racket ppa for ubuntu

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 14 17:15:33 EST 2011

There was a convenient button on the launchpad website (where the ppa
lives) to copy the package to 10.10 so I did that and it seems to work.
So if racket failed to install before, try it again.

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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