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Luarocks can't install a library

I want to install this library:

https://luarocks.org/modules/dodo/lua-dbus

I do

luarocks search lua-dbus

There are 0 results.

sudo luarocks install lua-dbus

doesn't install anything as well.

The problem is only with this library, because I can search for other libraries on luarocks, for example

luarocks search socket

gives plenty of matches.

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

  • That library (and the one which it depends on) have no versioned release yet, so they are marked as DEV (which you can see in the "Versions" section).

    Those libraries do not show up in searches or can't be installed by default. You need to add the "development" repository in the search:

    luarocks search lua-dbus --server=https://luarocks.org/dev

    And to the install command: luarocks install lua-dbus --server=https://luarocks.org/dev

    So you're not doing anything wrong, it is just that the site is not clear enough.