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luaenv-luarocks

luaenv-luarocks is an luaenv plugin that provides a luaenv luarocks command to configure and install LuaRocks on UNIX-like systems (where luaenv installs).

Installation

Before using luaenv-luarocks, you need to install luaenv and Lua with lua-build.

Installing luaenv-luarocks as an luaenv plugin will give you access to the luaenv luarocks command.

git clone https://github.com/xpol/luaenv-luarocks.git ~/.luaenv/plugins/luaenv-luarocks

This will install the latest development version of luaenv-luarocks into the ~/.luaenv/plugins/luaenv-luarocks directory. To update luaenv-luarocks, run git pull in ~/.luaenv/plugins/luaenv-luarocks to download the latest changes.

Usage

To install a LuaRocks for the current Lua in luaenv, run luaenv luarocks with the exact name of the version you want to install. For example,

luaenv luarocks 2.4.1

If no version name specified, the latest known stable release will used.

LuaRocks versions will be installed for current Lua in luaenv.

To remove LuaRocks (installed rocks are kept), run luaenv luarocks --uninstall.

To see a list of all available LuaRocks versions, run luaenv luarocks --list.