# Running chez after building Racket?

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-chez-after-building-racket/329>\
**Category:** Questions & Answers\
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-chez-after-building-racket/329 "2021-12-01T23:33:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-chez-after-building-racket/329/1 "2021-12-01T23:33:07Z")

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Some users would like to be able to run Chez Scheme "with racket additions"; that is, the copy of Chez that is built as part of a Racket release.

This used to be easy, when Chez was a separate repository. Since July 2020, that's no longer the case.

But!

It appears to me, based on a few minutes wading around in my build directory, that it it might be possible to set library paths in such a way that you can run the "scheme" executable, and connect it to the "scheme.boot" file. Is this possible?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![badkins](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/badkins/32/99_2.png) [@badkins](https://racket.discourse.group/u/badkins)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-chez-after-building-racket/329/2 "2021-12-02T16:28:59Z")

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John - here's what I got from Matthew:

1. go to racket/src/build/cs/c/ChezScheme and use make run
2. to install permanently: use sudo make install there to install in /usr/local/bin