[racket] Racket install issue

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Wed Jul 14 16:30:40 EDT 2010

On Jul 14, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>   On 07/14/2010 12:31 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > On Jul 14, spir wrote:
> >> My system is ubuntu 9.10.
> >> After some search, I found that the .sh file downloaded is a shar
> >> archive, to be unpacked and installed using unshar. Right.
> > No -- the ".sh" file is (in this case and in general) a file that
> > should be fed to a shell, so you should run it simply as
> >
> >    sh the-file.sh
> 
> Can this information should be added to the download page in some
> "howto install" box?

Can and should.  There used to be instructions for some file types,
but it got to be come a huge mess that was not properly maintained.
I'll try to do something simple and more effective.

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