<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I don’t believe there are any prebuilt CentOS Racket distributions available, so I can’t help you there. I will say, however, that I recently built Racket from source for the first time, and I found it remarkably easy. I cloned the repo, ran make, and I was done.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Building from source can take some time, though, mostly since it needs to compile all the packages. You can download the <i class="">Unix Source + built packages</i> distribution from <a href="http://download.racket-lang.org" class="">download.racket-lang.org</a>, though, which contains the package bytecode pre-compiled. The bytecode is platform-independent, so you’ll only have to build the core, not the packages.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Someone else might be more knowledgable in that area than I am, but I’m guessing that’s the best you’re going to get unless there’s a CentOS distribution I’m not aware of.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2015, at 21:45, George Neuner <<a href="mailto:gneuner2@comcast.net" class="">gneuner2@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">I am looking at a possible deployment on a Centos based cloud VM and I won't have a compiler available to build Racket locally. Is there a pre-made distribution (preferably 6.0.1) that runs on Centos 6 or 7?<br class=""><br class="">If not, how hard would it be to compile Racket on a separate Centos machine and then install it to the cloud VPS? [He asks naively never having built Racket before.]<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">George<br class=""><br class="">____________________<br class=""> Racket Users list:<br class=""> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" class="">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>