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LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.

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Forks: 479
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 219

Dominant language: Lua
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: No contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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219 open issues indexed

`source.url = XXX.tar.gz` 852 times slower than `cli untar` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

luarocks/luarocks#1892 · Opened Jul 5, 2026
[string "src/luarocks/manif/writer.lua"]:139: bad argument #1 to 'sort' (table expected, got string) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

luarocks/luarocks#1886 · Opened Jun 14, 2026
[FAIL to install] The LuaBitop package gets failing on gcc compiler for Macos Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

luarocks/luarocks#1884 · 8 comments · Opened May 23, 2026
luarocks unconditionally installs build_dependencies using its own lua version, regardless of --lua-version, breaks install Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

luarocks/luarocks#1880 · 17 comments · Opened May 4, 2026
manifest download silently fails with LuaSec on OpenSSL 3.x: 'unexpected eof while reading' Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

luarocks/luarocks#1879 · Opened May 4, 2026
LuaRocks should not create `~/.luarocks` by default Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

luarocks/luarocks#1878 · 3 comments · Opened May 2, 2026
Support two factor auth during upload flow Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

luarocks/luarocks#1877 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Rename `--lua-versions` in `luarocks init` Open

feature request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

luarocks/luarocks#1870 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 27, 2026
`fs.is_tool_available` can't find `.bat` tools on Windows Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

luarocks/luarocks#1869 · 8 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2026
how to install on macOS? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

luarocks/luarocks#1861 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2026
Install `activate` convenience script and symlink to Lua interpreter like Python `venv` Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

luarocks/luarocks#1860 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2026
Segfault when using Lua 5.5 + LuaRocks 3.13.0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

luarocks/luarocks#1852 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
stop ignoring errors in fs modules Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1849 · Opened Dec 26, 2025
luarocks doesn't install anything. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

luarocks/luarocks#1845 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 13, 2025
Using an alternate build backend does not respect the requested --tree Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1843 · Opened Nov 26, 2025
`luarocks test`: build before running the test suite Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1836 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Failed to install xml2lua with luarocks Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1835 · Opened Oct 6, 2025
write_rockspec writes incompatible rockspec Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

luarocks/luarocks#1834 · Opened Oct 1, 2025
[lua-5.1] error during writing manifest Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1831 · Opened Sep 16, 2025
unable to install any package that requires compilation on Windows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1830 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2025
3.12.2 fails to install packages on Windows Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1829 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2025
3.12.2 fails to install packages on macOS Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

luarocks/luarocks#1828 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2025
[luarocks 3.12 regression] Fails to apply patches Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

luarocks/luarocks#1826 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2025
Broken package: lsqlite3 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

luarocks/luarocks#1822 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 19, 2025
bard argument but got "nil" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1818 · Opened Aug 10, 2025
luarocks pack incorrect rock platform Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

luarocks/luarocks#1817 · Opened Aug 4, 2025
Feature Request: allow setting C standard Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1811 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Is it possible to install a rock from anywhere in the local file system? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1804 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 19, 2025
LuaRocks 3.12.0 fails with a Lua 5.[34] built with LUA_NOCVTS2N Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1802 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2025
Luarocks fails to install packages when using base kong 2.8.1 alpine image Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

luarocks/luarocks#1801 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 8, 2025
command 'init' requires exclusive write access to /usr/local Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1794 · 2 comments · Opened May 6, 2025
Newly installed Luarocks will not run under new Cygwin Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1793 · 4 comments · Opened May 4, 2025
Can't auto detect/custom "arch" Win32-x86, x64 using CMake? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

luarocks/luarocks#1792 · 4 comments · Opened May 3, 2025
Luarocks does not seem to process GCC libraries Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

luarocks/luarocks#1790 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 29, 2025
[FR] new source.type == "none" Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

luarocks/luarocks#1789 · Opened Apr 28, 2025
[FR] external dependency on an executable Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1788 · Opened Apr 28, 2025
[Linux] Error using lua-5.4 with luasec/ssl package Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1781 · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Add most up to date binaries to downloads Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1780 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2025
Compatibility table Open

feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

luarocks/luarocks#1778 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 24, 2025
documentation for instaling LuaRoks for multiple Lua versions is misssing Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1774 · Opened Mar 20, 2025
LuaRocks wont compile on Termux Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

luarocks/luarocks#1773 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 16, 2025
rocks-5.1 does not exist and your user does not have write permissions in /usr/local/lib Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

luarocks/luarocks#1768 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 13, 2025
Installation, links, documentation to installation, how to install on Windows is a very painful experience Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1760 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 27, 2025
Support Linux on ARM Open

feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

luarocks/luarocks#1742 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 7, 2025
exclude_directories for before copy_directories, remove some directories Open

feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1739 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 3, 2025
Lua path output full of misplaces quotes for LUA_PATH and LUA_CPATH Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

luarocks/luarocks#1736 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Version number mismatch Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

luarocks/luarocks#1735 · Opened Jan 27, 2025
`No existing manifest. Attempting to rebuild` error during `luarocks --verbose test foo-scm-1.rockspec --prepare` command Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1731 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 29, 2024
wget should be executed with -O/--output-document Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

luarocks/luarocks#1722 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 9, 2024
lua.lua:1093: attempt to call field 'geteuid' (a nil value) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

luarocks/luarocks#1716 · Opened Oct 18, 2024

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