[Solved] Can’t install distlearn through a firewall

The rockspec code has a built-in, tacit requirement to use git protocol. From behind a firewall, one must use HTTPS. luarocks has no proxy environment variable to configure this from the command line, so the installation fails. Fortunately, there is a way to reconfigure git: sudo git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// This forces all git … Read more