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