How To Install lua-term on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-term
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lua-term
lua-term is:
lua-term provides a library interface to facilitate terminal operations and manipulations in Lua. Lua-Versions: 5.2 5.3 5.1
There are three methods to install lua-term
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-term 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-term
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-term
Install lua-term Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-term
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-term
Install lua-term 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-term
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-term
How To Uninstall lua-term on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lua-term
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-term
Uninstall lua-term And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-term
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-term
Remove lua-term Configurations and Data
To remove lua-term
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-term
Remove lua-term configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-term
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-term
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-term
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.