How to install sumneko_lua

Question

I'm a Mac user with complete lua config. I have tried installing sumneko_lua in Neovim 0.6.1 several times but without success. Frustration led me to open this question. I have also read and tried to follow several tutorials but without success.

The official one all clear but not the last point: I run in my terminal: ./bin/lua-language-server with this infinite output:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"$/status/report","params":{"text":"😺Lua","tooltip":"Cached files: 0/0\nMemory usage: 2M"}}Content-Length: 120

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"$/status/report","params":{"text":"😺Lua","tooltip":"Cached files: 0/0\nMemory usage: 1M"}}

About the official setup, what it literally means: The default cmd assumes that the lua-language-server binary can be found in $PATH. What exactly should I do?

In older tutorials this and this (min 8:30) I found that this line is missing in official config: cmd = {sumneko_binary_path, "-E", sumneko_root_path .. "/main.lua"};

Opening a lua file I have this error:

Spawning language server with cmd: `lua-language-server` failed. The language server is
either not installed, missing from PATH, or not executable.
Spawning language server with cmd: `lua-language-server` failed. The language server is
either not installed, missing from PATH, or not executable.

I also tried to follow these tutorials mentioned above unsuccessfully. The first, it does not solve where and how to use this path export PATH="$HOME/tools/lua-language-server/bin/macOS:$PATH". The second, opening a lua file, manages to start the configuration: not in my setup.

Is there anyone who can clearly indicate all the steps for a correct and complete configuration?

Answer 1

SOLUTION - If you using Homebrew you can install lua-language-server with brew install lua-language-server and you're done!