How To Install eja on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eja on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 eja using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eja
How To Uninstall eja on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eja
Remove eja Configurations and Data
To remove eja configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eja package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.