How to install luarocks for Windows 10 - lua

So I've been searching everywhere and I'm completely stuck right now. Initially I just installed the binaries which came with luarocks.exe and luarocks_admin.exe but with that there was no config file so when I go to install the luarocks-mysql module, luarocks was unable to find the lua library and said I needed to set the LUA_LIBDIR variable in the config. I can't make changes to the luarocks config though because it either doesn't exist or I can't find it.
After getting this problem I went back to install the luarocks all in one package but I'm unable to follow the instructions because I can't find the install.bat file that they were talking about. Sorry if this is a lot but I'm just running into a bunch of problems right now.
EDIT: Just use Ubuntu, it's 100 times easier.

I had similar problems. I didn't look for a solution and just installed wsl on windows 10.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
Then execute the commands in the console:
sudo apt install lua5.3 liblua5.3-0 liblua5.3-dev
sudo apt install luarocks

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I tried following this guide to install ROS, but even after adding ROS source.list and its key
sudo apt install ros-melodic-desktop-full
gave error.
E: Unable to locate package ros-melodic-desktop-full
Then I ran this command
sudo apt search ros
to see if any such package exists. I couldn't find ros-melodic-desktop-full but I found another similar package ros-desktop-full.
So I installed it instead. The installation went smooth without giving any errors.
Next step in the guide is to set-up ROS environment variable, but I have no such directory
/opt/ros
So how do I setup the environment variable?
P.S.
I also installed some tools and dependencies with this command
sudo apt install python3-rosdep python3-rosinstall python3-rosinstall-generator python3-wstool build-essential
and initialized rosdep
sudo rosdep init
rosdep update
The ros-desktop-full package you installed is part of the official Ubuntu release.
ROS Melodic (and in the future, Noetic) is published by the OSRF in a separate repository (packages.ros.org). These packages install to /opt/ros/. However, some ROS packages have also been ported to Debian, which is how they found their way to Ubuntu (which derives from Debian).
The Debian packages are fully functional, but they do not install to /opt/ros. Instead, everything is integrated in the operating system itself. This means that you need to set up your personal workspace slightly differently.
Given that most tutorials assume that you use the OSRF packages, I suggest you either wait for the Noetic release (scheduled for the end of May 2020), then install ros-noetic-desktop-full, or downgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to use ROS Melodic.
From the documentation here, melodic is only supported on Ubuntu 18.04. The ROS version targeting Focal (20.04) is Noetic, but that one has not been released yet (see Distributions). I'm not sure what ROS version Ubuntu packages (the ros-desktop-full one you installed), but I was not successful in using it.
If you really do want to use Ubuntu 20.04, then I think your best option currently is to compile from source. Last time I checked the precompiled debs for Noetic are not yet available at http://packages.ros.org/ros/ubuntu (you can track release progress at github issue 21513). No idea if compiling Noetic from source is easy or hard, but I was able to compile ROS2 foxy from source without too much trouble though.

Installing OpenCV into PyCharm

Idk if this is a stackoverflow-appropriate post so forgive if the question is misplaced. I'm trying to install OpenCV into my Pycharm IDE through the conda virtual environment. I typed conda install -c conda-forge opencv inside the PyCharm terminal and it has been doing this for 11 hours and God knows how many more to go.
Pycharm did this with PyTorch as well. Am I doing something wrong or is this normal?
While you can install packages directly in PyCharm by going to file->settings select Project Interpreter and click on the '+' icon on the top right (see image)
I would recommend creating a requirements.txt file in the root of your project, and write down all your required packages. When a package is missing, PyCharm will automatically suggest to install the package for you.
e.g. for installing opencv you can add the following to you requirements.txt
opencv-python
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opencv-python==4.1.2
edit: the advantage of using a requirement.txt is that you can more easily port the project to another machine, and re-install the packages if needed.

How to install Lua Love using the luarocks manger?

I am a complete newb to lua, but so far I like it.
I want to install love because it provides a nice framework and want to explore its features. I can already run lua scripts (luarocks comes with lua5.1.) and I have the zerobrain IDE. I installed socket.rock by getting the .rock file and running:
luarocks install luasocket-2.0.2-3.win32-x86.rock
But I can't find a similar file for love. I found this website: luarocks-love, which tells me:
luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/m/love <name>
So I can run this, but I don't know what <name> means... I tried it without <name> and I get an error. Can someone explain what I am missing here?
Thanks!
You can't install Love via luarocks. Love isn't a library.
The installers for Windows are available here.
What you have there is just used for installing libraries using luarocks that depend upon Love. It is not the framework itself.

How to install luagraph using luarocks

I'm trying to use luagraph, a binding to the graphviz library:
http://luagraph.luaforge.net/index.html
To install, I'm using luarocks in Mac OS X. The following command is executed in bash:
luarocks install luagraph
The output is the following:
Installing https://luarocks.org/luagraph-1.0.4-1.src.rock... Using
https://luarocks.org/luagraph-1.0.4-1.src.rock... switching to 'build'
mode
Error: Could not find expected file graphviz/graph.h, or
graphviz/graph.h for GRAPHVIZ -- you may have to install GRAPHVIZ in
your system and/or pass GRAPHVIZ_DIR or GRAPHVIZ_INCDIR to the
luarocks command. Example: luarocks install luagraph
GRAPHVIZ_DIR=/usr/local
I have been installed graphviz using homebrew, but I can't figure out how to pass GRAPHVIZ_DIR or GRAPHVIZ_INCDIR properly.
How can I install luagraph?
I've updated LuaGRAPH a couple of weeks ago. It now supports the newest version of Graphviz based on the cgraph library instead of the old graph library.
There is one drawback: I couldn't get luagraph to run on Windows using mingw because of some runtime library issues (compiler and dll compatibility probably). Please look at the README file for more details.
I personally never produced a rockspec for this module. This was created by someone else based on a fork of my luagraph library.
Installation without Luarocks is simple. Download from
https://github.com/hleuwer/luagraph
and follow the instruction in the documentation and the README file. You need adopt a simple config file which is included by make.
Herbert
Well, luaGRAPH is still the top result when searching for lua and graph. So the question is still standing.
And, unfortunately, the answer is: luagraph is OLD, the last update happened before the ubuntu 14.04 was released. And there seem to be some notable changes in the system itself, the flags the error message show do not seem to work. On top of that, graphviz is now about 20 releases newer than the luarock recommends.
There now is a bare bone alternative lua package: graphviz
It is extremely basic, and documentation in not at all informative, but at least it works.
update: Luagraph may be working again, but not through rocks. See the other answer.

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I have installed Lua for windows 5.1.4-40 and it comes with alien 0.4.1.
I want to upgrade alien to 0.5.0, and couldn't figure out a way to do it.
I have luarocks installed with lua for windows, and I have tried to use it.
luarocks.bat install alien
However, I got an error message saying:
*Error: Failed unpacking rockk file: C:\tmp\luarocks_....*
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