I'm new to Linux and am attempting install the newest luarocks version. I'm currently running version 2.0.8 (after running sudo apt-get update) which isn't sufficient for some of my needs. Is there a way to specify the version to install? (Also: I'm running this Linux version through a VM)
So, you got Luarocks from the previous question, but you want a newer version. I checked the Luarocks homepage, and found their instructions to be pretty good, and did the install on a VM in my home machine - it worked!
Here's the steps:
1) Download the newest version of Luarocks from the download page at http://luarocks.org/releases/. Get the file luarocks-2.2.0.tar.gz
2) In the ~/Downloads directory, where I am assuming your webbrowser placed the tar.gz file, you will need to unpack file file.
Open a terminal windows (ctrl+alt+t) and first ensure that you have the tools to build programs:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Now change to the download directory, extract the Luarocks source files and change to their directory:
cd downloads
tar -xvf luarocks-2.2.0.tar.gz
cd luarocks-2.2.0
Down for the configure, build and update"
./configure
make build
sudo make install
You done! If you enter luarocks at this point, it will confirm that you are on version 2.2.0
