How To Install liblua50 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblua50 on Debian 10.
What is liblua50
liblua50 is:
Lua is a powerful language which can be included in your C/C++ projects using this library.
For more information, please see the lua50 and lua50-doc packages
There are three methods to install liblua50 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblua50 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblua50 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblua50
Install liblua50 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblua50 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblua50
Install liblua50 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liblua50 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblua50
How To Uninstall liblua50 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the liblua50 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblua50
Uninstall liblua50 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblua50 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblua50
Remove liblua50 Configurations and Data
To remove liblua50 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblua50
Remove liblua50 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblua50 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblua50
Dependencies
liblua50 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblua50 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
