How to Install luarocks software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install luarocks software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

luarocks software package provides deployment and management system for Lua modules, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install luarocks 

luarocks is installed in your system.

Make ensure the luarocks package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep luarocks *

You will get with luarocks package name, version, architecture and description in a table

luarocks package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
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Package luarocks
Version 2.0.9-1
Description deployment and management system for Lua modules
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See Also, How to uninstall or remove luarocks software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?