How To Install lua-curses on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-curses on Kali Linux.

What is lua-curses

lua-curses is:

This package contains bindings for the ncurses library for the Lua language. It allows one to build simple interfaces on a text terminal.

This package used to be part of the lua-posix source package.

There are three methods to install lua-curses on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install lua-curses Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-curses using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-curses

Install lua-curses Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-curses using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install lua-curses

Install lua-curses Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-curses using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-curses

How To Uninstall lua-curses on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the lua-curses package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove lua-curses

Uninstall lua-curses And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lua-curses and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-curses

Remove lua-curses Configurations and Data

To remove lua-curses configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-curses

Remove lua-curses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lua-curses configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-curses

Dependencies

lua-curses have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libncursesw6
• libtinfo6

References

• lua-curses website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-curses package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.