# Ubuntu PPA Returns!

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [March 5, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132 "2026-03-05T02:46:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![samth](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/samth/32/3_2.png) [@samth](https://racket.discourse.group/u/samth)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:46am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/1 "2026-03-05T02:46:26Z")

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After a delay of only a few years, the Ubuntu PPA for Racket is again [available here](https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/ubuntu/racket). Thanks to Asumu Takikawa for many years of working on this, to David Bremner for continuing work on the Debian package, and to Claude for knowing more than me about debugging Debian packaging issues.

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**Author:** ![ToddOBryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/toddobryan/32/1962_2.png) [@ToddOBryan](https://racket.discourse.group/u/ToddOBryan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/2 "2026-03-05T02:50:17Z")

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Hooray!

I would be happy to help with maintaining this (especially automating the maintenance as much as possible), but won't have much time until the summer. It's so nice when Racket just auto-updates and I don't have to download and install it myself. 🙂

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**Author:** ![samth](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/samth/32/3_2.png) [@samth](https://racket.discourse.group/u/samth)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/3 "2026-03-05T03:07:54Z")

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Thankfully I think I've managed to mostly automate the process so it should be even easier next time.

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**Author:** ![ToddOBryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/toddobryan/32/1962_2.png) [@ToddOBryan](https://racket.discourse.group/u/ToddOBryan)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:09am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/4 "2026-03-05T03:09:11Z")

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Awesome. That means I've gotten the credit of making the offer, probably without having to do anything. 😃

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**Author:** ![pavpanchekha](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/pavpanchekha/32/642_2.png) [@pavpanchekha](https://racket.discourse.group/u/pavpanchekha)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 3:57am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/5 "2026-03-05T03:57:54Z")

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This is really great for Herbie development. A huge huge thank you!

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**Author:** ![hnmdijkema](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/hnmdijkema/32/2629_2.png) [@hnmdijkema](https://racket.discourse.group/u/hnmdijkema)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 8:16am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/6 "2026-03-05T08:16:56Z")

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Great! Thank you! Now that I know this, I'll add it to my packages list.

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**Author:** ![yanyingwang](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/yanyingwang/32/470_2.png) [@yanyingwang](https://racket.discourse.group/u/yanyingwang)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2026, 9:09am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/ubuntu-ppa-returns/4132/7 "2026-03-05T09:09:54Z")

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Thanks for the email. This is great news to me, and I'm looking forward to continuing my last contributions to this PPA in the following year.

Sam Tobin-Hochstadt \<[notifications@racket.discoursemail.com](mailto:notifications@racket.discoursemail.com)\> 于2026年3月5日周四 10:56写道：