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tangke
tangke

Reputation: 19

sudo luarocks command not found on centos7

I installed luarocks on centos7, then I execute 'luarocks install luacheck', there is an error:

'Error: Your user does not have write permissions in /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks
-- you may want to run as a privileged user or use your local tree with --local.'

So, I execute 'sudo luarocks install luacheck', but there is also an error:

'sudo luarocks command not found'.

I confirm that luarocks has installed correctly, bucause when I execte 'luarocks --version' shows:

/usr/bin/luarocks 2.4.2

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5130

Answers (2)

notoriousTOB
notoriousTOB

Reputation: 21

As luarocks isn't installed using the native package manager its installed to /usr/local/bin. This isn't in the PATH variable available in the sudo context - you can see (and edit) the configured paths in the secure_path property in the sudoers file.

Workaround that I use it to add a symbolic link to a path included in the secure_path property: sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/luarocks /usr/bin/luarocks

Upvotes: 2

Hisham H M
Hisham H M

Reputation: 6798

You can either use

sudo /usr/bin/luarocks install luacheck

to install luacheck system-wide

or

luarocks --local install luacheck

to install to your user only. To use the second option, you also need to run

eval $(luarocks path --bin)

to make sure that the Lua paths are updated in your shell. To make these Lua paths permanent, you can add the above line to your shell config file (~/.bash_profile or similar).

Upvotes: 1

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