title: how to install lua modules on linux
body: <p>i started programming lua on windows with "Lua for Windows", and plenty of good an necessary modules came with the package.</p>
  
  <p>now i am trying lua on my linux at home and i cant figure out if there is similar way to install lua packages here?</p>
  
  <p>specifically: for an own tea-timer-script i needed <code>sockets</code> and <code>iup</code>.
  <code>lua</code> was already on my <code>linux mint</code> and i thought it will be easy from here. i could find <code>sockets</code> on the repository, but i could not find <code>iup</code>.
  from there i tried <code>luarocks</code> with <code>sudo luarocks install iup</code> but i had no chance of finding it there. Also had problems with <code>luadist</code>.</p>
  
  <p>How do you do it?!?</p>