How To Install luarocks on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luarocks
on Fedora 36.
What is luarocks
LuaRocks allows you to install Lua modules as self-contained packages called “rocks”, which also contain version dependency information. This information is used both during installation, so that when one rock is requested all rocks it depends on are installed as well, and at run time, so that when a module is required, the correct version is loaded. LuaRocks supports both local and remote repositories, and multiple local rocks trees.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install luarocks
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install luarocks.
Install luarocks on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install luarocks
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install luarocks
Install luarocks on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install luarocks
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install luarocks
How To Uninstall luarocks on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the luarocks
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove luarocks
luarocks Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/luarocks
/etc/luarocks/config-5.4.lua
/usr/bin/luarocks
/usr/bin/luarocks-admin
/usr/lib/luarocks
/usr/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.4
/usr/share/doc/luarocks
/usr/share/doc/luarocks/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/luarocks
/usr/share/licenses/luarocks/COPYING
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cache.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cmd
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cmd/add.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cmd/make_manifest.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cmd/refresh_cache.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/cmd/remove.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/admin/index.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/argparse.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build/builtin.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build/cmake.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build/command.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/build/make.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/build.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/config.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/doc.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/download.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/install.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/lint.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/list.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/make.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/new_version.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/pack.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/path.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/purge.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/remove.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/search.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/show.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/test.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/unpack.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/upload.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/which.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/cmd/write_rockspec.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/cfg.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/dir.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/manif.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/path.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/persist.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/sysdetect.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/util.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/core/vers.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/deplocks.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/deps.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/dir.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/download.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/cvs.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/git.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/git_file.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/git_http.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/git_https.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/git_ssh.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/hg.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/hg_http.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/hg_https.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/hg_ssh.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/sscm.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fetch/svn.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/lua.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/macosx.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/netbsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/tools.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/unix
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/unix.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/win32
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/win32.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fs/win32/tools.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/fun.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/loader.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/manif
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/manif.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/manif/writer.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/pack.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/path.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/persist.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/queries.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/remove.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/repos.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/require.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/results.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/rockspecs.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/search.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/signing.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/test
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/test.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/test/busted.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/test/command.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/tools
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/tools/patch.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/tools/tar.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/tools/zip.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/type
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/type/manifest.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/type/rockspec.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/type_check.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/upload
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/upload/api.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/upload/multipart.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/luarocks/util.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luarocks
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).