lua 5.1

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Install lua5.1 on MacOS

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73586208/can-you-install-disabled-homebrew-packages

By default homebrew-core is not tapped anymore. This is needed for brew edit to work though. Thus this small addition to the other answers.

Tap homebrew-core:

brew tap homebrew/core --force

Edit the formula with:

brew edit lua@5.1

Remove the line:

disable! date: "2022-07-31", because: :unmaintained

And install it with:

HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 brew install lua@5.1

If you don’t plan to edit more packages, untap and free the space from tap again (~1Gb):

brew untap homebrew/core