Re: any easy 'batteries-included' way of installing Lua on linux (ubuntu to be specific)

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> (or even a script that feeds into apt-get)

Thanks to my old friend awk, and a little editorial discretion:

# lua-install
apt-get install liblua5.1-bitop0 \
liblua5.1-copas-dev \
liblua5.1-copas0 \
liblua5.1-cosmo0 \
liblua5.1-dev \
liblua5.1-doc0 \
liblua5.1-expat-dev \
liblua5.1-expat0 \
liblua5.1-filesystem-dev \
liblua5.1-filesystem0 \
liblua5.1-iconv0 \
liblua5.1-json \
liblua5.1-logging \
liblua5.1-logging-dev \
liblua5.1-lpeg-dev \
liblua5.1-lpeg2 \
liblua5.1-markdown0 \
liblua5.1-md5-0 \
liblua5.1-md5-dev \
liblua5.1-posix-dev \
liblua5.1-posix1 \
liblua5.1-sec-dev \
liblua5.1-sec1 \
liblua5.1-socket-dev \
liblua5.1-socket2 \
liblua5.1-sql-doc \
liblua5.1-sql-sqlite2 \
liblua5.1-sql-sqlite3-2 \
liblua5.1-sql-sqlite3-dev \
liblua5.1-xmlrpc0 \
liblua5.1-zip-dev \
liblua5.1-zip0 \
luarocks
####

And I did test it - generally a good idea to grab everything at once,
because of the slow prepare/finish for individual installs. It's only
about 800Kb of downloads. (The -dev packages contain the
documentation.)

steve d.