Not installed luarocks with packer

[curkan]

✗ Failed to install xml2lua
Error: Could not determine source directory from rock contents (2 file(s), 0 dir(s))

exactly the same problem with mimetypes.

Moreover, if you install it on the host, then only installation under sudo works (sudo luarocks install mimetypes)
Without sudo the installation does not work. Doesn't fit under packer at all
Tell me what could be the problem?

MacOS

[wanghui5801]

I have the same problem but I can't search for the correct way to solve it.

[jrebs]

I don't know if this is your solution, but I just had a bunch of errors trying to get rest.nvim installed and the log seemed to show the actual problem was with installing luarocks or something, and in the error output I did also see mention of xml2lua being unable to load.

Reading through all of the output more closely, I noticed that the fatal error was occurring when trying to load a readline header file. So I did (on my xubuntu system):

sudo apt install libreadline-dev

Seem to have fixed the issue and now rest.nvim installs and I have a :Rest command I just need to learn to utilize. HTH