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| LuaRocks | |
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| Original author | Hisham Muhammad |
| Developers | Hisham Muhammad, et al. |
| Release | August 9, 2007 |
| Stable release | 3.13.0
/ January 28, 2026 |
| Written in | Lua |
| Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows (Cygwin), Solaris, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD |
| Type | Package manager |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | luarocks |
| Repository | |
LuaRocks is a package manager for the Lua programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Lua modules (in a self-contained format called a "rock"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of rocks, and a server for distributing them. While not included with the Lua distribution, it has been called the "de facto package manager for community-contributed Lua modules".[1]
The interface for LuaRocks is a command-line tool called luarocks which can install libraries and manage Lua rocks.[2] LuaRocks optionally integrates with Lua run-time loader to help find and load installed rocks while managing version dependencies. Though it is possible to use a private LuaRocks repository, the public repository is most commonly used for rocks management. As of December 2016, there are over 1,500 rocks in the public repository.[3]
The public repository helps users find rocks, resolve dependencies and install them. LuaRocks is compatible with Lua versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4, as well as LuaJIT. Version 3.13.0 adds Lua 5.5 support, but some rocks may not be compatible with the new Lua version.
Development on LuaRocks was started in 2006 by Hisham Muhammad and was released to the public on August 9, 2007.[4]
In 2015, the public repository moved from a static page curated by the tool's developer to a new server written in MoonScript by Leaf Corcoran. Also, LuaRocks development was moved to GitHub in 2010.
In January 2024 the Lux package manager project was started to tackle the shortcomings of LuaRocks. It was originally called NeoRocks but has since been rebranded to Lux.[5][6]
In February 2025 the maintainer of LuaRocks Hisham Muhammad (hishamhm) gave a statement on the state of the project and its shortcomings on Github Discussion in response to the Brazilian Youtuber Jorge Rezende (Luaverse). He wrote that 20 years of legacy code, the war between LuaJIT and the mainline Lua interpreter, whose newer features are incompatible, and his job made it hard for him and that he ran out of energy to improve LuaRocks, saying he's burned out. Further he explained that luarocks.org has been created and maintained by Leaf Corcoran, owner of Itch.io, from his own pockets.[7]
LuaRocks is written in Lua itself, and it is cross-platform. It is available in all major Linux distributions. However, since distribution packages often lag behind the latest release installing the latest release is recommended. When installed from the upstream tarball, LuaRocks can upgrade itself on Unix systems.
For Windows, LuaRocks distributes a package file including LuaRocks, Lua 5.1 and required utilities that are missing in a typical Windows system. The Windows package supports both Microsoft Visual Studio and MinGW compiler suites. For running on Cygwin, the Unix package should be used.
On macOS, LuaRocks is included with the Lua package of the Homebrew package manager. The Unix tarball can also be installed directly on macOS.
LuaRocks has also been reported to work on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and Solaris.[4]
Due to installation issues (permissions needed for system installation, lagging system packages, etc.), there is hererocks, a package available at the Python Package Index that can be installed via pip and provides installations of Lua and LuaRocks into a local directory upon demand.[8]
LuaRocks allows installing Lua modules to standard Lua paths as well as to customized locations. For this reason, it is possible to use it to install extensions to any project that uses standard Lua modules, such as the Awesome window manager. Some projects, however, adopted LuaRocks as their recommended solution for managing extensions, integrating it and in some cases, maintaining their own repository of project-specific rocks. Some projects that use LuaRocks in this fashion are:
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LuaRocks is a package manager for the Lua programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Lua modules (in a self-contained format called a "rock"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of rocks, and a server for distributing them. While not included with the Lua distribution, it has been called the "de facto package manager for community-contributed Lua modules". The interface for LuaRocks is a command-line tool called luarocks which can install libraries and manage Lua rocks. LuaRocks optionally integrates with Lua run-time loader to help find and load installed rocks while managing version dependencies. Though it is possible to use a private LuaRocks repository, the public repository is most commonly used for rocks management. As of December 2016, there are over 1,500 rocks in the public repository. The public repository helps users find rocks, resolve dependencies and install them. LuaRocks is compatible with Lua versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4, as well as LuaJIT. Version 3.13.0 adds Lua 5.5 support, but some rocks may not be compatible with the new Lua version.
RubyGems is a package manager for the Ruby programming language that provides a standard format for distributing Ruby programs and libraries (in a self-contained format called a "gem"), a tool designed to easily manage the installation of gems, and a server for distributing them. It was created by Chad Fowler, Jim Weirich, David Alan Black, Paul Brannan and Richard Kilmer in 2004. The interface for RubyGems is a command-line tool called gem which can install and manage libraries (the gems). RubyGems integrates with Ruby run-time loader to help find and load installed gems from standardized library folders. Though it is possible to use a private RubyGems repository, the public repository is most commonly used for gem management. The public repository helps users find gems, resolve dependencies and install them. RubyGems is bundled with the standard Ruby package as of Ruby 1.9.
Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed mainly for embedded use in applications. Lua is cross-platform software, since the interpreter of compiled bytecode is written in ANSI C, and Lua has a relatively simple C application programming interface (API) to embed it into applications. Lua originated in 1993 as a language for extending software applications to meet the increasing demand for customization at the time. It provided the basic facilities of most procedural programming languages, but more complicated or domain-specific features were not included; rather, it included mechanisms for extending the language, allowing programmers to implement such features. As Lua was intended to be a general embeddable extension language, the designers of Lua focused on improving its speed, portability, extensibility and ease-of-use in development.
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a software repository of over 220,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 45,500 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer (somewhat like a package manager). Most software on CPAN is free and open source software.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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