How To Install eja on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eja on Kali Linux.

What is eja

eja is:

eja is a stand alone Lua interpreter with embedded support for sockets, forking and directory underlying structure access, it can act as a micro web server for static and dynamic generated content or as a text scanner using Lua pattern matching syntax.

There are three methods to install eja on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install eja Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install eja using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install eja

Install eja Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install eja using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install eja

Install eja Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install eja using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install eja

How To Uninstall eja on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the eja package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove eja

Uninstall eja And Its Dependencies

To uninstall eja and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove eja

Remove eja Configurations and Data

To remove eja configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge eja

Remove eja configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove eja configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eja

Dependencies

eja have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• liblua5.2-0

References

• eja website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eja package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.