> Anyway, from a users point of view its is still difficult to install a > stable Linux and to get the newest stable lua stuff from the distro. It should be a breeze to compile Lua from source. As mentioned in the Getting started http://www.lua.org/start.html>, Download <http://www.lua.org/download.html>, and FAQ <http://www.lua.org/faq.html#1.1> pages, these commands should work: curl -R -O http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.2.3.tar.gz tar zxf lua-5.2.3.tar.gz cd lua-5.2.3 make linux test The only sore point might be the absence of readline.h. It has remained a source of noise, unfortunately. Only Readme <http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/readme.html> mentions how to solve this... (Use "make linux MYLIBS=-ltermcap".)