How To Install lua-expat on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-expat
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lua-expat
lua-expat is:
This package contains the bindings for the expat library. Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2 5.3
There are three methods to install lua-expat
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-expat 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-expat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-expat
Install lua-expat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-expat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-expat
Install lua-expat Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-expat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-expat
How To Uninstall lua-expat on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lua-expat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-expat
Uninstall lua-expat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-expat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-expat
Remove lua-expat Configurations and Data
To remove lua-expat
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-expat
Remove lua-expat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-expat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-expat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-expat
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.