Plenary build failed with lazy.nvim

[srijan-raghavula]

The full description:

  Failed (1)
    ● plenary 0.12ms  start
        `lua` version `5.1` needed, but found `Lua 5.4.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2022 Lua.org, PUC-Rio`
        `lua5.1` or `lua` or `lua-5.1` version `5.1` not installed

        This plugin requires `luarocks`. Try one of the following:
         - fix your `luarocks` installation
         - enable `hererocks` with `opts.rocks.hererocks = true`
         - disable `luarocks` support completely with `opts.rocks.enabled = false`

        Will try building anyway, but will likely fail...

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        Error: Could not find Lua 5.1 in PATH.
        Please set your Lua interpreter with:

           luarocks --lua-version=5.1 --local config variables.LUA </path/lua>
        Failed installing plenary.nvim with `luarocks`.

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        Trying to build from source.
        Error: Could not find Lua 5.1 in PATH.
        Please set your Lua interpreter with:

           luarocks --lua-version=5.1 --local config variables.LUA </path/lua>

shreezn@shreezn-pc:~$ luarocks --version
/usr/local/bin/luarocks 3.11.1
LuaRocks main command-line interface
shreezn@shreezn-pc:~$ lua -v
Lua 5.4.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2022 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

I made a fresh installation of neovim and cloned into this config. After reading what lazy has displayed, I've also tried installing lua5.1-dev which also didn't work.

[dhrupadb]

Same issue with Lua 5.4.6. I'm able to replicate the issue using luarocks alone

➜  luarocks --lua-version 5.1 install luassert
Password:
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.1 - failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.1
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.1 - failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.1
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://loadk.com/luarocks/manifest-5.1 - failed downloading https://loadk.com/luarocks/manifest-5.1

[KitBolourchi]

I am having the same issue and trying to figure it out.

[lucasczpnk]

Same here

[PiquelChips]

I fixed this by intalling the lua51 pacman package. You might wanna try the equivalent of your package manager

[ciano1000]

Also having this issue, anyone make any progress in resolving it?

[Conni2461]

not sure but if you guys dont want to install plenary.nvim with luarocks i think you can just disable luarocks support in lazy.nvim. see also https://github.com/nvim-lua/plenary.nvim/issues/597#issuecomment-2213486886

[P1R]

I think it is a big error to force by DEFAULT to use an external package, specially neovim usually you can use them out of the box. So I guess here is when convienence becomes complex and unconvinient.