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According to Paul Graham, first I'm supposed to 

install version 372 of mzscheme

So I went here: http://download.plt-scheme.org/mzscheme/mz-372-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-sh.html

sh mz-372-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu.sh

But then when I download that shell script, and follow the instructions, I get the following error:

Checking the integrity of the binary archive... ok.
Unpacking into "/home/n/mz-tmp-install"... done.
mz-372-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu.sh: 478: mz-372-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu.sh: 
mz-tmp-install/bin/mzscheme: not found
Error: installation failed
(Removing installation files in /home/n/mz-tmp-install)

System info: Ubuntu 16.04. 64 bit

Bhargav Rao
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Nathan majicvr.com
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    Don't vandalize your post to invalidate the present answers. Leave it as such. If you want to ask a new question, create a new separate post. – Bhargav Rao Mar 30 '18 at 23:09
  • I was actually just trying to remove the irrelevant information for future users. Imo, mzscheme is a distraction from Arc, which is the true beauty – Nathan majicvr.com Mar 31 '18 at 01:55

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I'm not sure how to get that version of mzscheme working on your computer, but I can solve your higher-level problem of "how do I run Arc?"

The latest version of Arc, 3.1, was released in 2009. It no longer requires mzscheme 372 or earlier.

If you download 3.1, you can run Arc on top of Racket with racket -f as.scm. The install instructions on arclanguage.org have not been updated, however.

You might also want to look into anarki, a community-driven fork of Arc, which gets bugfixes and some changes. And the Arc forum has a few people posting in it, if you have other questions.

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