How To Install lua-json on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-json on CentOS 8.
What is lua-json
LuaJSON is a customizable JSON decoder/encoder, using LPEG for parsing.
We can use yum or dnf to install lua-json on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-json.
Install lua-json 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 lua-json using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lua-json
Install lua-json 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 lua-json using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lua-json
How To Uninstall lua-json on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the lua-json package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lua-json
lua-json Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/lua-json
/usr/share/doc/lua-json/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/lua-json/LuaJSON.txt
/usr/share/doc/lua-json/ReleaseNotes-1.0.txt
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/composite.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/number.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/others.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/state.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/state.lua.lua-52
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/strings.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/decode/util.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/array.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/calls.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/number.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/object.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/others.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/output.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/output_utility.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/encode/strings.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3/json/util.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-json on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.