Re: Error with LuaRocks on Lua for Windows

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

That was confirmed as the source of Charlie's problem.

On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:23:50 -0700, Stuart P. Bentley  
<stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:

> 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