Upgrading Minimal Racket and DrRacket

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I'm on Mac OS X Sierra and I've been using homebrew to get hold of minimal racket and then adding the things I want on top via raco. One of those things being drracket.

However after upgrading from 6.10 to 6.11 things have gone a bit awry. When I did the brew upgrade the operation in brew went smoothly and not produce any errors. However drracket then failed to launch with the following:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/minimal-racket/6.10/lib/racket/Racket.framework/Versions/6.11_3m/Racket Referenced from: /usr/local/bin//DrRacket.app/Contents/MacOS/DrRacket Reason: image not found [1] 64747 abort drracket

Which would seem to suggest it's unhappy about a reference from 6.10 to 6.11. In googling I saw raco had a migrate option so I tried:

raco pkg migrate 6.10

Which produces:

raco pkg migrate 6.10
No packages from "6.10" to install

So I thought I'd do the uninstall re-install dance:

--- ~ » raco pkg remove drracket raco pkg remove: cannot remove packages that are dependencies of other packages dependencies: drracket (required by: (racket-doc))

--- ~ » raco pkg remove racket-doc raco pkg remove: cannot remove packages that are dependencies of other packages dependencies: racket-doc (required by: (slideshow-doc future-visualizer r6rs-doc pict-doc draw-doc plot-doc beautiful-racket data-doc br-parser-tools-doc rackunit-doc srfi-doc typed-racket-doc net-doc gui-doc compatibility-doc beautiful-racket-lib xrepl-doc mzscheme-doc r5rs-doc quickcheck distributed-places-doc reprovide-lang drracket string-constants-doc math-doc parser-tools-doc profile-doc macro-debugger brag db-doc sugar planet-doc syntax-color-doc scribble-doc readline-doc web-server-doc trace drracket-tool-doc doc-coverage errortrace-doc net-cookies-doc beautiful-racket-demo)) --- ~ »

So now I'm not sure how to proceed. I'm pretty sure I should be doing something different to upgrade but I'm not clear what.

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racketraco
IIUC, the homebrew formula is not “official”, so I don’t think it’s officially supported. Generally, the Racket installers for macOS install “in-place”, so separate installations are essentially sandboxed (hence the reason for raco pkg migrate). I don’t know exactly what the error in your question indicates, but you might try running raco setup, which will rebuild things that might need to be rebuilt after the upgrade. – Alexis King

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This is a comment, but I needed some formatting...

The error 

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/Cellar/minimal-racket/6.10/lib/racket/Racket.framework/Versions/6.11_3m/Racket

means that you are missing a binary. That explains why running raco didn't fix anything - since raco handles Racket byte compiled files.

Like Alexis I recommend using one of the official installers from:

http://download.racket-lang.org/

Less trouble in the long run.