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We’ll install Racket from apt as follows, as the snap version ended up with many hassles

In the Racket programming language, raco is a command-line tool used to interact with Racket's package management system, run tests, build documentation, and perform other tasks related to Racket development. It's a versatile utility that automates various tasks in Racket projects.

I’m reading Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and want to write Racket in VSCode in Jupyter notebooks in a dialect of Scheme closest to the book. This requires this declaration at the top of each Racket file:

First, we’re going to install Jupyter. As we don’t want to contaminate our global Python installation, we’ll do this in a venv