how to install lua modules on linux

Question

i started programming lua on windows with "Lua for Windows", and plenty of good an necessary modules came with the package.

now i am trying lua on my linux at home and i cant figure out if there is similar way to install lua packages here?

specifically: for an own tea-timer-script i needed sockets and iup . lua was already on my linux mint and i thought it will be easy from here. i could find sockets on the repository, but i could not find iup . from there i tried luarocks with sudo luarocks install iup but i had no chance of finding it there. Also had problems with luadist .

How do you do it?!?

Answer 1

Try:

IUP - Building in Linux

There are instructions for building from sources or using pre-compiled binaries.