Excellent, doing that now, thank you! On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:22 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > On Aug 13, Byron Gibson wrote: >> Thanks Horace, your first guess was correct, by 'repo' I mean my >> linux distro (Ubuntu) software repository. > > To get the latest version, the easiest option is to get our .sh > installer and run it (pass it as an argument to sh, or run it > directly). The first question it asks is whether you want a > unix-style installation -- the default is to not do this, which means > that you get the whole racket installation in a single directory that > you can put anywhere you want in your system, including in your home > directory. This makes it very convenient to use even if you're using > some lab machine where you don't have root access. > > (And, of course, if you choose the unix-style installation with the > default directories, then the files will overwrite the files from the > ubuntu package. The installer should generally be careful about such > things and alert you that the directory exists.) > > >> 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), > > There's not much to "managing" a racket installation in a single > directory -- you can move the directory anywhere you want, and you can > upgrade it by deleting the whole thing and installing a newer version > in the same way. To make it possible to run executables without > specifying long paths, you can drop symlinks into some directory that > is in your path. > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >
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