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Scribble installation instructions for Ubuntu/Debian

This is an installation instruction Scribble: The Racket Documentation Tool

  1. Install dependencies (required for generating PDF files, skip if not needed)

    $ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-science texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra
  2. Install racket

    $ sudo apt install racket

    After this, the commands racket and raco will be avaiable.

  3. Install scribble

    $ raco pkg install scribble
  4. Usage scribble can now be used in two ways:

    $ scribble file.scrbl
    $ raco scribble file.scrbl
  5. Next steps

    Proceed to the scribble documentation https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html

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