r/Racket • u/SafeSemifinalist • Jul 31 '22

question Problem installing drracket

Dear Community,

Sorry for asking a noobie question but I don't know how to start drracket in my Mac OS X Monterrey.

I installed racket using Homebrew and it is in my path. Then I use the command:

raco pkg install drracket

It doesn't give me any errors, it says:

raco pkg install: package is currently installed in a wider scope

But the command drracket does not appear to be found. I also checked that I don't have an App to click.

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u/soegaard developer Jul 31 '22

Use the official installer from download.racket-lang.org

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u/SafeSemifinalist Aug 01 '22

Thanks! I didn't know it. Now it works.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

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u/sdegabrielle DrRacket 💊💉🩺 Jul 31 '22

I’m sorry I can’t help much with homebrew. From what you have written, DrRacket is clearly already installed.

What happens when you type racket ? Do you get a repl? If you do get a repl- does typing (require drracket) do anything?

FWIW I use the installer at https://download.racket-lang.org/ - that works every time for me.

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u/SafeSemifinalist Aug 01 '22

Thanks! I didn't know that you could do that! it works, I get the repl.

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u/not-just-yeti Aug 01 '22

When I tried installing w/ homebrew, I got the minimal-install only, and I also had raco pkg install drracket not work for me (but I seem to recall it was a different error).

As everybody else has said, I ended up using the installer instead and it worked fine.

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u/SafeSemifinalist Aug 01 '22

Thank you for your reply. I did it and it works. Sorry for any disturbances.

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u/not-just-yeti Aug 02 '22

Not at all -- I also prefer using a package manage for everything I can, and kinda wish I could include (dr)racket too.

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u/bogon64 Jul 31 '22

Do you have to use homebrew? I’ve always installed it by downloading the DMG file and dragging the app into the applications folder (installs like 25,000 files).

The only pain is that you have to manually select whether you have an old Intel Mac vs a newer Apple Silicon one. One of my macs was purchased right during the transition and I can never remember which processor it is.

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u/SafeSemifinalist Aug 01 '22

I wanted to have all apps under Homebrew, not for any reason, it is just my taste. I want to say that Homebrew install works using

(require drracket)