On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:10:17PM -0600, Don Green wrote: > I am running Racket on Ubuntu. > > No problem running racket as a user. > > Trying to run racket as an administrator, i.e., after running > > > sudo su > > > then > > > sudo racket > > > This fails because the environment variable PLTCOLLECTS seems to be not in > effect. (Works fine when I don't use sudo in front of the call to racket.) > <DELETED> > > When I type: > > sudo racket > > (current-library-collection-paths) returns: > > '(#<path:/home/don/.racket/5.2.1/collects> > #<path:/usr/local/racket/collects>) > > This is not what I want. > > > For some unknown reason this path has not been added: > > #<path:/home/don/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects> > > ---------------- > > > When I type: > > racket > > (current-library-collection-paths) returns: > > '(#<path:/home/don/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects> > #<path:/home/don/.racket/5.2.1/collects> #<path:/usr/local/racket/collects>) > > This is what I want. > > ----------------- > > > I am aware of the raco links method and also the planet software that > provides a sudo wrapper on some racket commands, but I have reasons for > wanting to first try the approach I am attempting above. > > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Don Green
Don sudo can take a -E option which will preserve the environment. I do not know if this will help you? Bob ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
