ENOENT: no such file or directory

[EmDash00]

Trying to use the install script to get a fresh install of rocks.nvim, but I can't seem to get it to work.

Installing rocks.nvim...
E5108: Error executing lua: .../bin/nvim-linux64/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/_system.lua:244: ENOENT: no such file or directory
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'error'
        .../bin/nvim-linux64/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/_system.lua:244: in function 'spawn'
        .../bin/nvim-linux64/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/_system.lua:335: in function 'system'
        /tmp/nvim.ember/RCSF0G/0.lua:399: in function </tmp/nvim.ember/RCSF0G/0.lua:345>

Can someone help me figure out what's going on? I was on the old nightly release but decided to just do a fresh install. I deleted my old rocks directory and reran the script and got this odd message. What seems to be the problem?

[mrcjkb]

Hey 👋

When vim.system errors with ENOENT: no such file or directory, it typically means that the command being executed could not be found on the PATH.
I've just updated the installer and bootstrap scripts to output which command failed:

• chore(installer): better error messages #549

[EmDash00]

Hi thanks for the swift response. I was previously using a system Luarocks, but I started having issues with it and just decided to let rocks.nvim take care of installing Luarocks.

I ran it again and the error is about what I suspected. I looked through the source originally and suspected this. It seems to download Luarocks and build it, but when attempting to run it from the temporary directory it was built in, it can't seem to find it. Very odd. Any ideas what could be causing this?

stderr: Failed to execute:
/run/user/1000/luarocks-CB511A84450400/bin/luarocks --lua-version=5.1 --tree=/home/ember/.local/share/nvi
m/rocks --server='https://nvim-neorocks.github.io/rocks-binaries/' install rocks.nvim
.../bin/nvim-linux64/share/nvim/runtime/lua/vim/_system.lua:244: ENOENT: no such file or directory
stdout: nil

[mrcjkb]

Which system are you on?
I've only encountered this on Windows (in a GitHub actions workflow) so far and haven't been able to solve it yet.
I think it could be one of the following:

• The luarocks binary is not executable (maybe due to something going wrong during the build)
• luarocks could be trying to call another executable that can't be found on the PATH (perhaps lua?)
• A permissions issue

Which issues were you having with the system luarocks? As long as you have Lua 5.1/luajit headers installed, it should be possible to bootstrap rocks.nvim with the system luarocks (on Linux/mac). It should install luarocks 3.11.1 as a dependency and then use that instead of the system luarocks, as long as you don't set the luarocks_binary option in vim.g.rocks_nvim.

[EmDash00]

I found the issue. It's a bug in my .zshrc. I added a directory to PATH which contained a script named "install" which took precedence over the install command. Removing that directory from PATH seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for including in the new debugging information. Was helpful to find out what was going on.