[racket] users Digest, Vol 61, Issue 13

The Jaunty version does work.

I've created a script that downloads and installs the Ubuntu version
in the /opt directory, in a folder called /opt/plt-version# with a
symbolic link at /opt/plt. It also installs a desktop file so that
DrRacket appears in the Applications menu, and adds a MIME type so
that .rkt files have an icon and double-clicking them opens DrRacket.
The icon is the SVG version of the plt-red-shiny icon in the icon
directiory. If you're using Picturing Programs, the script can also
download Stephen's teachpack and place it so that it looks like a
built-in teachpack so that each student doesn't have to download it
separately.

To use the script, download it.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10388887/install_plt.py

Assuming you saved it on your desktop, do the following

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ chmod +x install_plt.py

If you wish to install the Picturing Programs teachpack, open the file
and remove the # from the install_picturing_programs() line near the
bottom.

To install, decide if you want to install the latest stable version or
a nightly build and find the URL of the file you'd download. For
latest stable:

$ sudo ./install_plt.py
http://download.racket-lang.org/installers/5.0.1/racket/racket-5.0.1-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty.sh

For latest nightly build:

$ sudo ./install_plt.py
http://pre.racket-lang.org/installers/plt-5.0.1.5-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty.sh

After the script finishes,

$ gksudo gedit /etc/environment

and add /opt/plt/bin to the PATH variable defined there. Separate it
from the other paths with a colon.

When you log out and log back in, you should be able to type drracket
or any other plt command in a terminal and have it work. Even before
that, DrRacket should appear in your Applications->Programming menu.

The script shouldn't seriously break anything, but I have not
extensively tested it, so it may not work on all machines. Let me know
if you get problems and I'll try to fix them.

Todd

On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>  On 09/04/2010 06:25 PM, John Wagner wrote:
>>
>> Re:  when, good people, will you provide a racket download for ubuntu
>> users that are on the recent version lucid (10.04)?  It's impossible to
>> teach without it.  Or should we stay with scheme?
>
> Does the Jaunty download not work?
> http://download.racket-lang.org/racket-5-0-1-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty-sh.html
>
> There is a note on the download page explicitly stating that a package made
> for one version of a distribution might work on another version of the same
> distribution.
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