i started programming lua on windows with "Lua for Windows", and plenty of good an necessary modules came with the package.
now i am trying lua on my linux at home and i cant figure out if there is similar way to install lua packages here?
specifically: for an own tea-timer-script i needed sockets and iup.
lua was already on my linux mint and i thought it will be easy from here. i could find sockets on the repository, but i could not find iup.
from there i tried luarocks with sudo luarocks install iup but i had no chance of finding it there. Also had problems with luadist.
How do you do it?!?
Try:
There are instructions for building from sources or using pre-compiled binaries.