How To Install racket on Fedora 34

racket is General purpose programming language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install racket on Fedora 34.

What is racket

Racket is a general-purpose programming language as well as the world’s first ecosystem for developing and deploying new languages. Make your dream language, or use one of the dozens already available.

We can use yum or dnf to install racket on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install racket.

Install racket on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install racket using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install racket

Install racket on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install racket using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install racket

How To Uninstall racket on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the racket package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove racket

racket Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/drracket
/usr/bin/gracket
/usr/bin/gracket-text
/usr/bin/mred
/usr/bin/mred-text
/usr/bin/mzc
/usr/bin/mzpp
/usr/bin/mzscheme
/usr/bin/mztext
/usr/bin/pdf-slatex
/usr/bin/plt-games
/usr/bin/plt-help
/usr/bin/plt-r5rs
/usr/bin/plt-r6rs
/usr/bin/plt-web-server
/usr/bin/scribble
/usr/bin/setup-plt
/usr/bin/slatex
/usr/bin/slideshow
/usr/bin/swindle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/a427135d491801bc6220a6e3f346e905381990
/usr/share/applications
/usr/share/applications/drracket.desktop
/usr/share/applications/slideshow.desktop
/usr/share/licenses/racket
/usr/share/licenses/racket/COPYING-libscheme.txt
/usr/share/licenses/racket/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/licenses/racket/COPYING_LESSER.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install racket on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.