"luarocks install sundown" doesn't work

[yashoteja]

Hi, Apologies in case this is not the right place for this question. I am trying to install sundown using luarocks by using:

/usr/local/bin/luarocks install sundown

while logged in as root. This fails with following message:

Installing https://raw.github.com/torch/rocks/master/sundown-scm-1.rockspec... Using https://raw.github.com/torch/rocks/master/sundown-scm-1.rockspec... switching to 'build' mode Cloning into 'sundown-ffi'... fatal: unable to connect to github.com: github.com[0: 192.30.252.130]: errno=Connection refused Error: Failed cloning git repository.

I suspect that this is because git:// port is blocked for me, and I use https:// port while git cloning. But I don't know how to force luarocks to use https:// port instead of git://

Because of this issue, the 2-line torch installation command from "http://torch.ch/" does not work for me, since it uses luarocks. Can someone please tell me how to overcome this issue?

Thanks!

[soumith]

Read this relevant thread. This would be a luarocks issue, but seems to have a workaround. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.luarocks/5041

[yashoteja]

Done! Had to change

rockspec.source.url

to

rockspec.source.url:gsub("^git://", "https://")

in git.lua

[sonamsingh19]

Same issue. I was using a server over ssh(torch on server). luarocks couldn't install anything due to same error.

Final solution which worked for me was to use this in terminal : git config --global url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/

[aseempatni]

Thanks @sonamsingh19 git config --global url.https://github.com/.insteadOf git://github.com/ solved the issue.

[PrincipalComponent-zz]

Thanks @sonamsingh19. Had the same issue, your solution solved it.

[MInner]

@sonamsingh19 worked for me as well!

[christopher5106]

Thanks all!

[admercs]

@sonamsingh19 solution worked for me on OSX 10.11.

[bityob]

Thanks @sonamsingh19.

[saurabhbajaj123]

thanks @sonamsingh19.

[saviogeorge]

@sonamsingh19 yes this did solve the issue

[realwenlongwang]

@sonamsingh19 Thanks!!

[yanelike]

Thanks!!

[springshuai]

Same issue here, @sonamsingh19's solution worked, thanks!

[sethrj]

Surprised this hasn't been fixed in three years. Is it that uncommon for a corporate firewall to block outgoing git:// requests? Had to export GIT_TRACE=1 during spack install lmod to find out that it wasn't installing because of this clone attempt. Thanks @sonamsingh19 for the solution!

[ineron]

@sonamsingh19 solution worked for me on Centos 7 Thanks!!

[eduamf]

@vervenumen solution worked for me on Ubuntu 16. Thanks

[seclorum]

This is a viable workaround, but will luarocks ever be brought into the modern era?