Unable to download geoip module via luarocks

Question

I am trying to install geoip module via luarocks but it showing errors multiple times. luarocks --from=http://geoip.luaforge.net/rocks install geoip --verbose

Output

io.popen: 'pwd'

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-e' '/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-d' '/usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-e' '/usr/local' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-d' '/usr/local' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-e' '/usr/local' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && mkdir -p '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-d' '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks' && rm '-rf' '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks' && unzip -n '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip' Archive: /root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the last disk(s) of this archive. unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip or /root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip.zip, and cannot find /root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip.ZIP, period. Results: 1 1 (number): 2304

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && rm '-rf' '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && rm '-rf' '/root/.cache/luarocks/http___geoip.luaforge.net_rocks/manifest-5.1.zip.timestamp' Results: 1 1 (number): 0 Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed extracting manifest file

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && mkdir -p '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1' && test '-d' '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org' && rm '-rf' '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org/manifest-5.1' Results: 1 1 (number): 0

os.execute: cd '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org' && unzip -n '/root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org/manifest-5.1.zip' Archive: /root/.cache/luarocks/https___rocks.moonscript.org/manifest-5.1.zip inflating: manifest-5.1
Results: 1 1 (number): 0

Error: No results matching query were found.

but when i am able to dowloand this file wget http://geoip.luaforge.net/rocks/manifest can any one help on this.. where i am doing wrong..

also i tried with build make cc -Wall -ansi -c -o geoip.o geoip.c geoip.c:13:17: fatal error: lua.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. : recipe for target 'geoip.o' failed make: *** [geoip.o] Error 1

luarocks version = /usr/bin/luarocks 2.2.0 OS = Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS

Answer 1

https://luaforge.net is no longer maintained; you are using a deprecated URL.

For a current geoip library for Lua, use instead luarocks install lua-geoip.