How To Install compat-lua on CentOS 8

compat-lua is Powerful light-weight programming language (compat version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-lua on CentOS 8.

What is compat-lua

This package contains a compatibility version of the lua-5.1 binaries.

We can use yum or dnf to install compat-lua on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-lua.

Install compat-lua on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install compat-lua using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install compat-lua

Install compat-lua on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install compat-lua

How To Uninstall compat-lua on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove compat-lua

compat-lua Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/lua-5.1
/usr/bin/luac-5.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/0a33f55604abab9078546ce15a93e7e1b03eb4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/b11a3575a22467d54d283441f40cb749acf7fa
/usr/share/man/man1/lua-5.1.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luac-5.1.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-lua on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.