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Asked: 2026-05-29T10:40:09+00:00

I am using Ubuntu… I am trying to install racket from their website http://racket-lang.org/download/

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I am using Ubuntu… I am trying to install racket from their website http://racket-lang.org/download/…

After installation, under racket/, there are bin, collects, doc, include, lib and man as folders and README.

I try to run DrRacket, Racket, Gracket or raco, it tells me always The program 'drracket' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install racket

So it seems that it has not been installed… Could anyone help?

I also try sudo apt-get install racket, but the download suspends:

After this operation, 299 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
0% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.92.182)]

it is always 0%… Could anyone help?

PS: after a long while… I got a message:

Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe racket-common all 5.1.1+dfsg1-2
  Could not connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.92.184), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe racket i386 5.1.1+dfsg1-2
  Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe racket-doc all 5.1.1+dfsg1-2
  Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/racket/racket-common_5.1.1+dfsg1-2_all.deb  Could not connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (91.189.92.184), connection timed out [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/racket/racket_5.1.1+dfsg1-2_i386.deb  Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/r/racket/racket-doc_5.1.1+dfsg1-2_all.deb  Unable to connect to us.archive.ubuntu.com:http: [IP: 91.189.92.184 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Edit1: Another question is how to uninstall the package that I downloaded from their web site… May I just do a rm -rf?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Did you try running apt-get update like the error message suggested? This often happens when your package list is out-of-date.

    You probably do want to install this through your Linux distro, but if you want to use the version you’ve already installed, you probably just need to add the racket/bin directory to your path. i.e., add something like export PATH="$HOME/racket/bin/:$PATH" to your .bashrc.

    On Ubuntu you can also use a PPA that Jon Rafkind has set up so that you can install it with apt-get. The page for the PPA has an “Adding this PPA to your system” section that explains how to install it.

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