How To Install lua-nginx-websocket on Debian 10

Learn how to install lua-nginx-websocket on Debian 10 with this tutorial. lua-nginx-websocket is Lua websocket client driver for the nginx embedded Lua language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-nginx-websocket on Debian 10.

What is lua-nginx-websocket

lua-nginx-websocket is:

This modules provides a pure Lua websocket driver implementation for the embedded nginx’s Lua interpreter.

Because this module is based on the ngx_lua’s cosocket API, it inherits the advantage of a real nonblocking behaviour running effectively on the underlying nginx server ultra-fast technology design, allowing Web developers making use of the Lua programming language to script and construct extremely high-performance web applications capable to handle 10K+ connections.

Note that this module works for both nginx (provided by nginx-extras) and the OpenResty bundle.

There are three methods to install lua-nginx-websocket on Debian 10. 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-nginx-websocket 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-nginx-websocket using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-nginx-websocket

Install lua-nginx-websocket Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-nginx-websocket

Install lua-nginx-websocket 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-nginx-websocket

How To Uninstall lua-nginx-websocket on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-nginx-websocket

Uninstall lua-nginx-websocket And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lua-nginx-websocket and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-nginx-websocket

Remove lua-nginx-websocket Configurations and Data

To remove lua-nginx-websocket configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-nginx-websocket

Remove lua-nginx-websocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-nginx-websocket

Dependencies

lua-nginx-websocket have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-nginx-websocket package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.