Information about the package, luarocks, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The luarocks package is designed for, A deployment and management system for Lua modules.
Package Name:
luarocks
Summary:
A deployment and management system for Lua modules
URL:
Description:
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.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.1.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
98 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
MIT
Control the luarocks package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install luarocks
This command will install luarocks on the server.
yum remove luarocks
This command will un-install luarocks on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove luarocks, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove luarocks
This command will un-install luarocks on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove luarocks when using the -y flag.
yum update luarocks
This command will update luarocks to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove luarocks, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update luarocks
This command will update luarocks to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove luarocks when using the -y flag.
yum info luarocks
This command will show you core information about the luarocks package.
yum deplist luarocks
This command will show you the dependencies for luarocks. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update luarocks
This command will check if there is an update waiting on luarocks. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.