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- Subject: Re: Installing Lua and add-ons
- From: Jose Torre-Bueno <jtorrebueno@...>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 12:01:06 -0700
Thank you very much, if I could ask a follow up question, how would I install 5.1 and do I need to uninstall 5.2 to prevent interference. I want to use Luasockets which I understand only works with 5.1.
Also if there is a tutorial on how to use the other repositories I would be very interested.
Jose Torre-Bueno
jtorrebueno@cox.net
On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
>> I wonder if anybody can direct me to an "assume-I-know-nothing" tutorial on downloading and installing packages. I am not familiar with the basic mechanism of Linux make and its competitors and further have to deal with the subtle differences needed to instal in OSX.
>
> To download and install Lua in Mac OS X, open a Terminal window and do this:
> curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.0.tar.gz
> tar zxf lua-5.2.0.tar.gz
> cd lua-5.2.0
> make macosx install
>
> Adapted from http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.1 which contains a litte more
> information, incluing a link to Chapter 1 of the book Beginning Lua
> Programming.
>
