[racket] racket ppa for ubuntu

Whoops, forgot about this -- I'll see what I can do.

On 09/04/2011 08:27 PM, Doug Orleans wrote:
> Did this go anywhere?  It would definitely be cool to see DrRacket in
> the Ubuntu Applications menu.
>
> A screenshot in the Ubuntu Software Center would be nice too, but I
> don't know where that comes from (doesn't seem to be part of the
> .desktop file).  Oh hm, does it get them from
> http://screenshots.debian.net/ ?  Anyone want to upload some there?
>
> --Doug
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks Todd, I'll look into integrating these files.
>>
>> On 02/19/2011 08:46 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>>> I don't think they do.
>>>
>>> I've created a compressed /usr/share directory that, if unpacked and
>>> merged with what's already there, should register a mime type for
>>> application-x-racket, create a menu item in Applications/Programming,
>>> and create icons for both .rkt files and DrRacket itself.
>>>
>>> Here's a link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10388887/usr.zip
>>>
>>> I don't know how complicated it is to add such supplementary files to
>>> an Ubuntu package, but Jon is more than welcome to do so if he wants
>>> to use my archive. After adding these, you do have to update the gnome
>>> icon cache and the mime type cache, but I think that mostly happens
>>> automatically after a package install.
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure this works, but it should be pretty close.
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Brian Mastenbrook
>>> <brian at mastenbrook.net> wrote:
>>>> On 2/15/2011 4:30 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Am I missing something or do these packages not install .desktop files so
>>>> that DrRacket et al show up in the system applications menu?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Brian Mastenbrook
>>>> brian at mastenbrook.net
>>>> http://brian.mastenbrook.net/
>>>>
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