Re: [ANN] LuaRocks 2.4.2

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Deepak Jois once stated:
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 7:40 AM, Deepak Jois <deepak.jois@gmail.com> wrote:
> > /usr/local is not writable.
> >
> > The following subdirectories (and their immediate subdirectories)
> > under /usr/local are all writable
> >
> > - /usr/local/lib/luarocks
> > - /usr/local/share/lua
> > - /usr/local/lib/lua
> 
> I decided to try something. I reinstalled Lua using Homebrew. This
> time it installed without LuaRocks. After that I installed LuaRocks by
> downloading a tarball. I noticed a few things:
> 
> 1. `make bootstrap` throws an error ‘Your user does not have write
> permissions in /usr/local’
> 
> 2. `make build` and `make install` work. However, now if I do
> `luarocks install <package>` or `luarocks remove <package>, it gives
> me the same error as above.
> 
> So looks like for now my only option is to install LuaRocks outside of
> /usr/local, which is a bit inconvenient.

  Are you installing LuaRocks as a non-root user?  You could try

	su make bootstrap

  -spc