Requirements:

lanes

luasocket

luafilesystem (to collect files for the dcc module)

bit32 (needed for the dcc, generators.ineedaprompt, encode and code.bit modules/commands (Should use the pure Lua bit module that's in modules.hash.bit if not available))

utf8 (needed for the misc, figlet, code.string and style modules)

luasec (needed for the misc.cryptocoin_price, misc.download and url_info modules/commands, and to connect through TLS)

xml (needed for the feeds module)

imlib2 (needed for the image module, you should never use this module unless you want people to hate you)

You can install them by using luarocks:

sudo apt-get install luarocks

(or whatever package manager your distro uses)

luarocks install lanes
luarocks install luasocket
luarocks install luafilesystem
luarocks install bit32
luarocks install utf8
luarocks install luasec
luarocks install xml

You might want to install these globally by running luarocks as root, otherwise you can run this command to make local installed packages available to Lua:

echo "eval \`luarocks path\`" >> ~/.bashrc

After you installed all the requirements, copy the file example_config.lua to config.lua and edit away

After you're done editing config.lua, you can run the bot by running the following command:

lua5.1 main.lua config.lua