LuaRocks Build Fail about lgi HOT 7 CLOSED

I guess you forgot to include the link to the pastebin. Or if the output is not too long, you can just paste here.
Also, you say 'I'm following instructions from the GNOME website', can you please be more specific about which gnome website (url)? I'm not aware of GNOME web mentioning instructions regarding lgi.

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I am a failure, I apologize.

http://pastebin.com/p5NMkYic

I actually meant the GTK+ website. Again, I apologize, I was up at 4am trying to find something to create a gui with lua, I started getting sloppy.

http://www.gtk.org/language-bindings.php -> https://github.com/pavouk/lgi

Oh shit, meta-failure, I just realized I was following your instructions.

I'm sorry for the misunderstanding, my incompetence is overwhelming.

EDIT: I installed the package in the first paragraph, and luarocks installed lgi without a hitch. I guess maybe that was my problem. I don't really know.

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:-D

From the log in the pastebin it is clear that the gobject-introspection-devel package was missing, and as you said after installing it everything worked fine as expected. So if you have no other problem related to installation, I guess this one is solved. If you don't agree, please reopen.

Enjoy working with lgi, and I wish you less stress at 4am. :-)

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I'm back, and still relatively incompetent. LuaRocks installed lgi and I installed the devel package, but now I'm having trouble actually using lgi.

I've created a file test.lua, it contains:
local lgi = require 'lgi'

but I'm getting this back when I try to execute the script:

aezop@universe ~/Desktop $ lua test.lua
lua: test.lua:1: module 'lgi' not found:
no field package.preload['lgi']
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.2/lgi/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lgi/init.lua'
no file './lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/share/lua/5.2/lgi/init.lua'
no file './lgi.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/lgi.so'
no file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/lua/5.2/lgi.so'
no file '/usr/lib/lua/5.2/lgi.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.2/loadall.so'
no file './lgi.so'
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'require'
test.lua:1: in main chunk
[C]: in ?
aezop@universe ~/Desktop

Any ideas?

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Okay I figured it out, it doesn't work with lua 5.2. I removed 5.2 and executed the script with 5.1 and it ran through perfectly. You can close this again. I think I really can handle the rest from here.

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OK, I'm glad that figured it out. BTW, I've no problems with running lgi with 5.2 here (and actually debian successfully packages lgi for both 5.1 and 5.2). I guess that the problem might come from luarocks installation on Lua5.2.

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Had the same problem with lua: test.lua:1: module 'lgi' not found:
Just type sudo apt-get install lua-lgi

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