luarocks(1)

📦 version 3.11.1, in ubuntu stonking

💖 luarocks(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about luarocks — the manual page for LuaRocks, the module deployment system for Lua, and it's genuinely giving legend behaviour. this is luarocks(1), and it's about to be your new obsession. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

luarocks — module deployment system for Lua 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

luarocks [options] command

that's it. that's the whole shape of it. options, then a command. iconic. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

LuaRocks is a module deployment system for Lua. no cap, that's literally what it is. 🫶

here's the tea though — variables from the "variables" table of the configuration file can be overridden with VAR=VALUE assignments. so if you want to change something that lives in the config, you just show up with VAR=VALUE and it listens. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

these go before your command, bestie. they're the vibe-setters.

  • --from=<server> — fetch rocks/rockspecs from this server. and this one takes priority over the config file, so she wins the argument. periodt.
  • --only-from=<server> — fetch rocks/rockspecs from this server only — and it overrides any entries in the config file. like, don't even look at the config, we're locked in. 🎯
  • --to=<tree> — which tree to operate on. pick your tree, queen. 🌳

🌈 COMMANDS 🌈

these are the things you can actually do. one of them, per invocation. choose wisely (or just run help, no judgement 💜).

  • build — build/compile a rock.
  • download — download a specific rock file from a rocks server.
  • help — help on commands. (yes, she's self-aware, we love that for her 🙈)
  • install — install a rock.
  • list — lists currently installed rocks.
  • make — compile package in current directory using a rockspec.
  • pack — create a rock, packing sources or binaries.
  • remove — uninstall a rock.
  • search — query the LuaRocks servers.
  • unpack — unpack the contents of a rock.
  • config — query configuration.

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read that one too, bestie. she's the admin side of the family. iykyk. 🧚

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/luarocks/config.lua

that's the config file from the section above. the whole VAR=VALUE thing? yeah. here's where the variables live. 🏠

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org>

genuinely thank you to the author, we are so grateful, this is everything. 🙏

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this was printed from the LuaRocks manual, dated 06 August 2026, for luarocks(1). slay, bye. ✨🎀🦋

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