According to this page: http://luarocks.org/en/Creating_a_rock This should be saved in a file called luafruits-1.0-1.rockspec. The name must contain lowercase versions of the "package" and "ver...

I am working on Debian Stable Linux. I installed luafilesystem module by command: luarocks --local install luafilesystem However, it is not found when any of following is used in lua source files:...

I am trying to require a module I downloaded using luarocks using require "lualogging" but lua (and I!) cannot find where this module was downloaded to. Here is what I did I have used apt-get t...

I come from a python background and I'm hoping to do something semantically equivalent to pip install -r requirements.txt to install a list of Python packages at the right version. Is this achieva...

I am trying to install some luarocks packages but it seems that although lua5.3 is installed, the relevant headers are not $ which lua /usr/bin/lua $ lua -v Lua 5.3.3 Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.o...

I have the following luarocks: package = "project-name" version = "1.0-1" source = { url = "..." } description = { summary = "etc" detailed = [[]], homepage = "" } dependencies = { "lua >=...

I am writing a small Lua project and using Luarocks to install my 3rd-party dependencies. The default Lua version on my machine is 5.2 and up to this point everything is working just fine. However...

I've looked at many pages and either could not follow what they were saying because they were unclear and/or my knowledge is just not sufficient enough. I am trying to run: luarocks install http...

I have a custom plugin for Kong which worked fine for Kong v0.14.1 but after I upgraded to v.1.0.2 it's throwing an error. OS used: macOS Mojave In kong.conf file I have this code: log_level = d...

I am trying to install a luarocks package called stn. The official way of installing it is by running: luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qassemoquab/stnbhwd/master/stnbhwd-scm-1.r...

I installed the luarocks package on Linux Mint, and afterwards installed a couple of rocks such as sudo luarocks install telescope, but when running a script via lua script.lua, require cannot find...

I'm creating a module to send a mail using sendgrid (still very earlier stage) I have following rockspec package = "sendgrid" version = "0.1.0-1" source = { url = "git://github.com/meetme2meat/s...

I'm using lua-cjson package.path = package.path .. ";../?.lua" local json = require('cjson') And I'm getting: lua: error loading module 'cjson' from file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/cjson.so': dlo...

Is there a file/format that I can save all the dependencies required for an application so that I can run luarocks install or something and reads all those dependencies and installs them in that di...

I'm totally new in Lua. And here is what I've done on my new virtual Ubuntu. First I install the lua-5.3.4 which is download from their official website. make linux make install And this is the ...

I am trying to install a package usingluarocks. This is the output I get: [100%] Linking CXX shared module libcustn.so [100%] Built target custn Install the project... -- Install configuration: "R...

I hunted around but I couldn't determine if this is possible. Basically, http://luarocks.org is down, and I already have a copy of luafilesystem installed on another machine locally here. With Rub...

I am trying to use torch together with the hdf5 package. I am trying to install it via luarocks install hdf5 but during the build phase I get an error regarding the gcc-plugin header. (gcc relies o...

I'm working on my first lua package, and I am deeply confused as to what to name my rockspec(s) and where to put them. Every popular lua package I look at seems to deal with rockspecs differently. ...

I install luarocks: $ sudo apt-get install luarocks I install lua-cjson by luarocks: $sudo luarocks install lua-cjson show packages: $luarocks list Installed rocks: ---------------- lua-cjs...

I have both Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2 installed on Linux. When using luarocks to install a package is it possible to pass on option to luarocks that specifies which version of Lua the rock should be inst...

I want to install both Lua 5.2 and 5.1 on my Linux computer. Is this just a matter of installing each version with the usual make linux install or is there something else? In particular, I am worri...

I followed the instructions here and set up Lua and Luarocks from scratch, with Mingw. Everything worked fine and I was able to install rocks, including ones which require compiling like LuaSocket....

lua -e "print(package.path)" ./?.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.1/?.lua;/usr/share/lua/5.1/?/init.lua;/usr/lib/lua/5.1/?.lua;/usr/lib/lua/5.1/?/init.lua luajit -e "print(package.path)" ./?.lua;/us...

When I use the following script: local smtp = require("socket.smtp") local from = "from@host" local rcpt = "rcpt@host" local msg = { headers = { to = rcpt, subject = "Hi" }, body = "Hello" } ...