I am running Racket on Ubuntu. No problem running racket as a user.
Trying to run racket as an administrator, i.e., after running sudo su then sudo racket This fails because the environment variable PLTCOLLECTS seems to be not in effect. (Works fine when I don't use sudo in front of the call to racket.) I thought that if I can echo the value of the variable thusly, # echo $PLTCOLLECTS and this returns: /home/don/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects then the variable is in effect. I must be missing something. ----------------- When I type: sudo racket (current-library-collection-paths) returns: '(#<path:/home/don/.racket/5.2.1/collects> #<path:/usr/local/racket/collects>) This is not what I want. For some unknown reason this path has not been added: #<path:/home/don/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects> ---------------- When I type: racket (current-library-collection-paths) returns: '(#<path:/home/don/.plt-scheme/4.2.1/collects> #<path:/home/don/.racket/5.2.1/collects> #<path:/usr/local/racket/collects>) This is what I want. ----------------- I am aware of the raco links method and also the planet software that provides a sudo wrapper on some racket commands, but I have reasons for wanting to first try the approach I am attempting above. Thanks for any suggestions. Don Green
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