https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks

LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.
https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks

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LuaRocks is the package manager for the Lua programming language.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks
• Owner: luarocks
• License: mit
• Created: 2010-03-20T18:23:35.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-03T00:39:37.000Z (23 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-09T02:05:05.990Z (17 days ago)
• Topics: lua, lua-modules, luajit, luarocks, package-management, package-manager
• Language: Lua
• Homepage: https://luarocks.org
• Size: 255 MB
• Stars: 3,427
• Watchers: 92
• Forks: 446
• Open Issues: 204
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: COPYING
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Security: SECURITY.md

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README

        


A package manager for Lua modules.

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Main website: [luarocks.org](https://luarocks.org)

It allows you to install Lua modules as self-contained packages called

*rocks*. LuaRocks supports both local and remote repositories, and

multiple local rocks trees.

## License

LuaRocks is free software and uses the [MIT license](http://luarocks.org/en/License), the same as Lua 5.x.