Installing Racket locally

Learn how to install Racket locally to solve Exercism's exercises on your own machine


The Racket distribution can be downloaded from https://download.racket-lang.org

Installers are provided for

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS

Please reference Racket's Getting Started page for guidance materials.

The Racket Guide introduces you to interacting with Racket.

See DrRacket: The Racket Programming Environment for guidance using the DrRacket IDE.

See Command-Line Tools and Your Editor of Choice for an introduction to Racket command line tools and using other editors.

About the Linux installer:

The Linux build is generic enough that it should work on most distributions, including relatively old distributions.

After downloading the installer file, run it with

sh racket-8.10-x86_64-linux-cs.sh

You may need to prefix sudo to the start of the command to install to a location that requires administrator access.

Warning: Racket may also be available through your distribution's package manager, although it may be older than the latest Racket version. While you may choose to do this later, as a learner you will have a much better experience if you stick to the current release available from https://download.racket-lang.org

About the macOS installer:

If your machine uses the M1 or M2 series processors, select Apple Silicon in the platform dropdown menu before downloading.