[luatex] Accessing external Lua libraries

[Andreas Matthias]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 7:58 PM Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, Andreas Matthias wrote:
>
> > Hmm..., I cannot load any module that uses an 'init.lua' file. I gave
> > luapackageloader.sty a try but it didn't work either.
> >
> > What happens if you are loading such a module? There are many
> > modules in luarocks which are based on init.lua files.
>
> Can you give me a few examples of such modules? Preferably those that are
> packaged for Debian. Because I mostly avoid using luarocks. Debian tends
> to package the bigger and better known Lua modules, like penlight.

I was trying to load lua-busted. I installed it via luarocks, but it
is available
in Debian as well.

Andreas