Re: Luaxml is not found on Ubuntu 13.10 64 bits

[luciano de souza <luchyanus@...>]

Becose of the work, I couldn't advance meaningly about this subject.
However, I notice it's simple to download to /tmp using wget.

IN the deb package, using the standardized script "preinst", I can
easily call the "mak" commands and install "luarocks".

The "luarocks install" commands can be placed on "postint" script of
deb packages.

I didn't know how to uninstall, but I have read something about "make
uninstall" commands. Before knowing it, it was unsafe to do any
attempt.

In other words, I think I have enough information to make the
automation of instalation.

Probabily, my problem will be when Luarocks will be replaced to a
newer one. Actually, my package of instalation sould verify if
Luarocks is already installed, which is the version number and
downloading the current version from Source Forge to run "make
uninstall" commands. After this task, the computer would be ready to
install the newer version of Luarocks.

The fact Luarocks is not available in deb packages seemingly implies
lesss control about what is installed in the machines and the correct
way to automatically remove and replace it.

Well, I will search for third repositories of deb package. Now, I can
see what I want is possible and I think I will able to do it. However,
a deb package certainly will simplify it.

Most blind users in Linux uses Ubuntu. I know also Fedora and
ArchLinux. Ubuntu was the first distro to provide screen reader as
standard. So dispite the fact only source code instalation can be used
by any systens, it's true deb package are so useful in this context.

2014-05-23 7:01 GMT-03:00, Peng Zhicheng <pengzhicheng1986@gmail.com>:
> On 05/22/2014 12:41 PM, luciano de souza wrote:
>> I will try. The problem is not exactly the instalation commands are
>> complicated. The problem is that I want to use Lua to develop some
>> routines of accessibility. In other words, for that people, blind
>> user, who does not knows the terminal, who is acquainted to Windows
>> and starts on the Linux world, to whom terminal commands is a reason
>> to not migrate to Linux, for that people completely resistent to use
>> terminal is that I want to create some dialogs I want to install
>> luarocks.
>
> I didn't realize that pre-compiled packages were crucial for those people
> to use the software.
>
>> when Luarocks was automatically installed in a deb package, the user
>> could not be  informed about the fact. I will try the automatize all
>> the steps: downloadin, decompressing and instalation, but I hav never
>> done it. If I am not successful, it's really inviable for me. I can
>> use terminal commands, but I can suppose other blind users will do the
>> same. All steps need to be automatized.
>>
>> Well, let me try.
>>
>
> I recommend you to look into some non-official or third-party repositories
> or build services to see whether it has pre-built packages already.
>
> I don't have any experiences on Ubuntu distribution, but I suppose there
> do exist such services, similar to the openSUSE Build Service or the
> packman repository (I used both of which), right?
>
>
> BTW, I now wonder if Hisham would provide binary packages for major
> Linux distributions, on the official luarocks website.
> anylway, luarocks don't need to be really _compiled_, but configured.
>
>


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Luciano de Souza