<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">@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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">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 <a href="http://racket-lang.org/download/">http://racket-lang.org/download/</a>. 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.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">I'd chosen the "Distribution" of "Racket" and the "Platform" of "Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu precise)".</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Which gets to: <a href="http://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/6.1.1/racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh">http://mirror.racket-lang.org/installers/6.1.1/racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh</a></span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">(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!!)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Once </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh">racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh</a> 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:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">$ sh </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh">racket-6.1.1-x86_64-linux-ubuntu-precise.sh</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">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:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">$ /usr/local/bin/drracket</span></div><div><br></div><div>Hope maybe this helps,</div><div><br></div><div>Darren</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Yuhao Dong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yd2dong@csclub.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">yd2dong@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This sounds like her Ubuntu installation is horribly broken. Are there other problems with her computer?<span class=""><br>
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On 01/29/2015 07:52 PM, Peter Drake wrote:<br>
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I've got a student trying to install DrRacket on a Chromebook. She has<br>
Ubuntu installed, but we can't tell what version because<br>
<br>
lsb_release -a<br>
<br>
Gives:<br>
<br>
bash: lsb_release: command not found<br>
<br>
We tried the instructions at<br>
<br>
<a href="http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-drracket-on-ubuntu-12-04-ubuntu-12-10-and-ubuntu-13-04-by-the-command-line-interface/" target="_blank">http://linuxg.net/how-to-<u></u>install-drracket-on-ubuntu-12-<u></u>04-ubuntu-12-10-and-ubuntu-13-<u></u>04-by-the-command-line-<u></u>interface/</a><br>
<br>
But these failed because the echo "deb... commands came back with:<br>
<br>
bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory<br>
<br>
Does anyone know how to do this?<br>
<br>
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