Questions about installation and usage

[Paul Merrell]

Hi, All,

I've successfully installed Lustdist to Mint 14 (derived from Ubuntu 12.10), or at least the console told me so. 

However, I noticed flying by that it was configured for Lua 5.1. 

    1. Can it be configured for Lua 5.2 and if so how?

I want to use Luadist in conjunction with Lua 5.2 (latest release) embedded in an app, the NoteCase Pro outliner. http://notecasepro.com/ (.)

    2. Can I configure Luadist to do so and if so how?

Displaying my Linux ignorance, I can't find a method to uninstall Luadist. I installed with: sudo echo "$(curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/gist/2394281/luadist.sh)" | bash 

    3. How  may I uninstall Luadist?

I suggest that answers to those questions be added to the wiki. 

Best regards,

Paul E. Merrell, J.D. 

[Peter Drahoš]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Paul Merrell <mar...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, All,

I've successfully installed Lustdist to Mint 14 (derived from Ubuntu 12.10), or at least the console told me so. 

However, I noticed flying by that it was configured for Lua 5.1. 

    1. Can it be configured for Lua 5.2 and if so how?

I want to use Luadist in conjunction with Lua 5.2 (latest release) embedded in an app, the NoteCase Pro outliner. http://notecasepro.com/ (.)

LuaDist itself is based on Lua 5.1, however you can use it to install Lua-5.2 into a separate directory (we call these "deployments"). Using the following command you can install latest Lua on to your Desktop

./luadist /home/myself/Desktop/lua-5.2 install lua  

Once this is done you can point LUA_CPATH and LUA_PATH environment variables into /home/myself/Desktop/lua-5.2/lib/lua as indicated by the Lua manual.

export LUA_CPATH=/home/myself/Desktop/lua-5.2/lib/lua/?.so

export LUA_PATH=/home/myself/Desktop/lua-5.2/lib/lua/?.lua

With this done the embedded Lua in notecasepro should look for modules there.

    2. Can I configure Luadist to do so and if so how?

Displaying my Linux ignorance, I can't find a method to uninstall Luadist. I installed with: sudo echo "$(curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/gist/2394281/luadist.sh)" | bash 

No, not LuaDist itself but as mentioned above you can have a deployment that is lua-5.2 based and use LuaDist to manage it. For example:

 ./luadist /home/myself/Desktop/lua-5.2 install luafilesystem

will install luafilesystem into your lua 5.2 deployment. Please note that the number of lua 5.2 compatible modules is very limited.

    3. How  may I uninstall Luadist?

Simply delete the directory it was installed into. There are no components installed into the system, nor does this require elevated privileges.

pd