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+<p align="center"><img src="http://luarocks.github.io/luarocks/luarocks.png" width="500px"/></p>
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+This is **LuaRocks**, the package manager for the Lua programming language.
+
+LuaRocks allows you to install Lua modules as self-contained packages called
+**[rocks](types_of_rocks.md)**. LuaRocks supports both local and remote
+repositories, and multiple local rocks trees.
+
+LuaRocks is free software and uses the same [license](license.md) as Lua.
+
+## Quick start
+
+* [Download](download.md)
+* [Using LuaRocks](using_luarocks.md)
+* [Creating a rock](creating_a_rock.md)
+
+For more information, check the full [documentation index](index.md).