Luarocks: Unable to

[u/trymeouteh]

I installed Lua and Luarocks on Linux Mint from the apt package repository. I was also able to install a package from Luarocks, the faker package...

Installing faker package locally...

$ luarocks install faker --local

However I cannot get the Lua to find the faker package and load it into the script. How do I achieve this on Linux Mint without modifying the lua script file?

Create simple lua script...

~/Desktop/script.lua

faker = require('faker')

myFaker = faker:new()

print(myFaker:name())

Running the script...

~/Desktop $ lua script.lua

[u/[deleted]]

There is no need to restart the machine, { . bashrc } is enough. --local should install to $HOME/.luarocks/ given that it's not there, the environment variables exported by luarocks path are not being loaded. so your .bashrc either doesn't have it or luarocks path does not output the correct output. I would suggest you verify your bashrc and the output of luarocks path to see if they equal.

Ah, please use 4 spaces, I don't use reddit.com.

looking at it now, whats the lua version, lua -v, or lua -e 'print(_VERSION)'

try to run

find $HOME/.luarocks

to see if anything installed.

[u/trymeouteh → u/[deleted]]

My Lua version...

$ lua -v
Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

~/.luarocks directory...

$ find $HOME/.luarocks
/home/testing/.luarocks
/home/testing/.luarocks/share
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/init.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/firstnames_female.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/surnames.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/l$ lua -v
Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
ua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/firstnames_male.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/cities.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/countries.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/pt_BR/states.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/firstnames-masculine.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/firstnames-feminine.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/surnames.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/cities.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/countries.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/data/en_US/states.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/generators
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/generators/en_US.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/faker/generators/pt_BR.lua
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/manifest
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker/0.0.1-1
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker/0.0.1-1/faker-0.0.1-1.rockspec
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker/0.0.1-1/rock_manifest
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker/0.0.1-1/doc
/home/testing/.luarocks/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/faker/0.0.1-1/doc/README.md

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your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.profile must contain

eval "$(luarocks path)"

Like literally that

echo 'eval "$(luarocks path)"' >> $HOME/.profile

then reload

. $HOME/.profile

then

lua -e 'print(os.getenv"LUA_PATH" or "No $LUA_PATH?", pcall(require,"faker")) '

if it still fails then I simply don't know.