[racket] Installing DrRacket on Chromebook

@Peter I was just snooping at my chromebook relative to these messages -
/etc/apt and /etc/apt/sources.list are on my machine - googling it does
appear they're fundamental to using apt (apt-get).  I suspect Yuhao is
right that her machine is messed up somehow.

But I also did remember more about how I installed it last time - not using
apt-get.  I'd definitely downloaded the shell script from
http://racket-lang.org/download/.  I would think this would/should work on
her machine if it's a somewhat recent version of ubuntu and if her machine
isn't just terribly/totally messed up.

I'd chosen the "Distribution" of "Racket" and the "Platform" of "Linux
x86_64 (Ubuntu precise)".

Which gets to:
http://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/6.1.1/racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh

(I just realized I thought you'd said she was on ubuntu 12.04 which is
"Precise" - but did I misread that?  If you're unsure of the ubuntu version
- I'd just try it!  A lot easier than upgrading the OS!!)

Once racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh downloads it's truly just
a script you run from a terminal window - there's a little bit of
explanation in comments at the top of the script but I *think* I simply did:

$ sh racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh

It ends up putting a link to drracket in /usr/local/bin, which is probably
in her path (so "drracket" alone should start it), but even if not after it
installs she should be able to start it from a terminal with:

$ /usr/local/bin/drracket

Hope maybe this helps,

Darren

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Yuhao Dong <yd2dong at csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
wrote:

> This sounds like her Ubuntu installation is horribly broken. Are there
> other problems with her computer?
>
>
> On 01/29/2015 07:52 PM, Peter Drake wrote:
>
>> I've got a student trying to install DrRacket on a Chromebook. She has
>> Ubuntu installed, but we can't tell what version because
>>
>> lsb_release -a
>>
>> Gives:
>>
>> bash: lsb_release: command not found
>>
>> We tried the instructions at
>>
>> http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-drracket-on-ubuntu-12-
>> 04-ubuntu-12-10-and-ubuntu-13-04-by-the-command-line-interface/
>>
>> But these failed because the echo "deb... commands came back with:
>>
>> bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
>>
>> Does anyone know how to do this?
>>
>>
>>
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