Minimal Racket includes just enough of Racket that you can use raco pkg to install more.

The Linux build is generic enough that it should work on most distributions, including relatively old distributions. Racket may also be available through your distribution's package manager, although it may be older than the latest Racket version.

After downloading the installer file, run it with to install, possibly adding sudo to the start of the command to install to a location that requires administrator access.

Select the Apple Silicon option in Platform.

Select the Intel 64-bit option in Platform.

The Source + built packages distribution is recommended, instead of the selected Source distribution. The Source + built packages distribution includes pre-built, platform-independent bytecode; it installs much faster than plain source, and it is also compatible with fast installs of additional Racket packages.

To build from source for Windows or Mac OS, download and build a Minimal Racket distribution (see More Installers and Checksums) instead of a Racket distribution, then (when on Windows) install the racket-lib package with and then (on both Windows and Mac OS) install packages with

After building Minimal Racket from source, install the racket-lib package with with before installing other packages.

To restore packages installed for a previous version of Racket, use DrRacket's File > Package Manager > Copy from Version or at a command line use raco pkg migrate.