luarocks Error: failed downloading https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4

[adoyle-h]

Share a solution for the luarocks error that matching failed downloading https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4.

Problem

When I try to install luaformatter by luarocks install --server=https://luarocks.org/dev luaformatter, it prints warnings and errors.

sh: line 1: 70017 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4.zip' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
sh: line 1: 70019 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4 - failed downloading https://luarocks.org/dev/manifest-5.4
sh: line 1: 70021 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.4.zip' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
sh: line 1: 70023 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.4' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.4 - failed downloading https://luarocks.org/manifest-5.4
sh: line 1: 70025 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.4.zip' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
sh: line 1: 70027 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.4' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.4 - failed downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rocks-moonscript-org/moonrocks-mirror/master/manifest-5.4
sh: line 1: 70029 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luafr.org/luarocks/manifest-5.4.zip' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
sh: line 1: 70031 Abort trap: 6           wget --no-check-certificate --no-cache --user-agent="LuaRocks/3.9.1 macosx-x86_64 via wget" --quiet --timeout=30 --tries=1 --timestamping 'https://luafr.org/luarocks/manifest-5.4' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null
Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed downloading https://luafr.org/luarocks/manifest-5.4 - failed downloading https://luafr.org/luarocks/manifest-5.4

Error: No results matching query were found for Lua 5.4.
To check if it is available for other Lua versions, use --check-lua-versions.

Solution

I'm using MacOS. Running brew upgrade wget to upgrade wget to version 1.21.3_1 will solve this problem.