Re: Error with LuaRocks on Lua for Windows

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

Deleting and re-installing my Lua for Windows installation on my tablet  
fixed it.

One problem that I ran into, and I suspect it's the same one Charlie's  
running into, though I haven't confirmed it yet, is that you must run the  
command prompt as an Administrator. I'm always on as Administrator on my  
desktop, but on my tablet I keep UAC higher. "Error unpacking rock file"  
is endemic of the install command being run from a LUA (Limited User  
Account - one of the few times that's been used correctly on this list)  
privileged prompt. This should probably be included in the installation  
steps- I'll add it now.

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:25:34 -0700, Fabio Mascarenhas  
<mascarenhas@acm.org> wrote:

> Hi, Stuart,
>
> I just downloaded LfW 5.1.4-37, installed it, then downloaded
> luarocks-2.0.2-lfw.zip from http://luarocks.org/releases and copied
> the contents of the .zip file to where I installed LfW. "luarocks
> install wsapi-xavante" ran with no problems. Could you check where
> your LUA_DEV environment variable and your PATH are pointing? Maybe an
> older version of LuaRocks and/or LfW are conflicting with our newest
> installation (and the same can be happening with your friend).
>
> --
> Fabio Mascarenhas
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Stuart P. Bentley  
> <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
> > After extracting the LuaRocks for LfW zip over my desktop's LfW 5.1.4-34
> > installation, I was able to install wsapi-xavante just fine. However, my
> > friend who extracted it over his LfW 5.1.4-35 installation had this  
> > error:
> >
> > C:\Users\Charlie>luarocks install wsapi-xavante
> > Installing
> > http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/wsapi-xavante-1.3.4-1.win32-x8
> > 6.rock...
> >
> > Error: Failed unpacking rock file:
> > C:\Users\Charlie\AppData\Local\Temp\luarocks_
> > luarocks-rock-wsapi-xavante-1.3.4-1-2472/wsapi-xavante-1.3.4-1.win32-x86.rock
> >
> > (Also, his changes.txt file says 5.1.4-34 at the beginning of the  
> > 5.1.4-35
> > changes section.)
> >
> > On my tablet running LuaRocks extracted over Lua for Windows 5.1.4-37,  
> > I get
> > this error:
> >
> > C:\Users\Stuart>luarocks install wsapi-xavante
> > Installing
> > http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/wsapi-xavante-1.3.4-1.win32-x8
> > 6.rock...
> >
> > Missing dependencies for wsapi-xavante:
> > xavante >= 2.2.0
> > rings >= 1.2.3
> > wsapi >= 1.3.4
> > coxpcall >= 1.13
> >
> >
> > Missing dependencies for xavante:
> > copas >= 1.1.5
> >
> >
> > Missing dependencies for copas:
> > coxpcall >= 1.13
> >
> >
> > Error: Failed installing dependency:
> > http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/xava
> > nte-2.2.0-1.all.rock - Failed installing dependency:
> > http://luarocks.org/reposit
> > ories/rocks/copas-1.1.6-1.all.rock - Failed installing dependency:
> > http://luaroc
> > ks.org/repositories/rocks/coxpcall-1.13.0-1.all.rock - File already  
> > exists:
> > C:\P
> > rogram Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\lua/coxpcall.lua