How To Install liblcm-lua on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblcm-lua on Kali Linux.

What is liblcm-lua

liblcm-lua is:

LCM is a set of libraries and tools for message passing and data marshalling, targeted at real-time systems where high-bandwidth and low latency are critical. It provides a publish/subscribe message passing model and automatic marshalling/unmarshalling code generation with bindings for applications in a variety of programming languages.

This package provides the lua interface.

There are three methods to install liblcm-lua 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 liblcm-lua Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install liblcm-lua

Install liblcm-lua Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install liblcm-lua

Install liblcm-lua 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 liblcm-lua using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblcm-lua

How To Uninstall liblcm-lua on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove liblcm-lua

Uninstall liblcm-lua And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblcm-lua

Remove liblcm-lua Configurations and Data

To remove liblcm-lua configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblcm-lua

Remove liblcm-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblcm-lua

Dependencies

liblcm-lua have the following dependencies:

• liblcm1
• libc6
• liblua5.2-0
• liblcm-bin

References

• liblcm-lua website

Summary

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