On 1 December 2016 at 02:25, Deepak Jois <deepak.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote: >> >> Those of you on Unix who are running LuaRocks as a rock (i.e. those >> who previously installed using `make bootstrap`) can install it using: >> >> luarocks install luarocks >> > > My luarocks installation on OS X comes from the lua installed via > Homebrew. That was a while ago. Since then I have been upgrading > luarocks using the above method, and it has worked. I recently > upgraded to OS X Sierra, but now I get: > > <code> > $ luarocks install luarocks > > Error: Your user does not have write permissions in /usr/local > -- you may want to run as a privileged user or use your local tree with > --local. > </code> > > Any way to work around that, because the /usr/local/ subfolders seems > to be writable.
What LuaRocks version do you currently have installed? Is /usr/local itself writable? What about /usr/local/lib/luarocks, /usr/share/lua and /usr/lib/lua (and their immediate subdirectories)? -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers