How To Install liblua50 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblua50 on Kali Linux.

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 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 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 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 liblua50 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblua50

How To Uninstall liblua50 on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblua50

Remove liblua50 Configurations and Data

To remove liblua50 configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• liblua50 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblua50 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.