Thanks Horace, your first guess was correct, by 'repo' I mean my linux distro (Ubuntu) software repository.
Thanks for your answer, I suspected that one install would 'clobber' the other, just wanted to verify. I prefer to use the distro repository to install software when possible, since that makes it easier to manage and update (at least for a relative Linux newbie), but Debian/Ubuntu hasn't updated the plt-scheme package and dependencies to Racket yet. Will probably continue using plt-scheme until I come across some problem I specifically need to update to Racket for. Thanks! On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Horace Dynamite <horace.dynam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it possible to install both of these, or do they overwrite parts of >> each other? > > I'm sorry if I have missed something obvious, but I'm not at all sure > what you mean by "repo". First guess is a GNU/Linux distributions > repo, in which case, it's likely that installing one first (say > plt-scheme) and then following that by installing racket (and vice > versa) will clobber some exuctables because Racket installs backward > compatible drscheme (and friends) executables which really run the > drracket (and friends) executables. You could very well get all sorts > of other bizzare behaviour trying this. Smarter package managers might > not even allow such a situation. > > You could mean the source code repos from the plt-scheme & racket-lang > sites respectively. In which case, you can pass the > --prefix=/dir/of/your/choice to the configure script when you build > them, and then add aliases in your shell for drscheme and drracket so > that they fire up what you want. > > Or you could mean something entirely different. My appologies if I've > misundestood you. > > I wonder why you'd want to do this though? > > Horace. > -- Byron -- I think I think, therefore I think I am. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
