How To Install libluajit-5.1-2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libluajit-5.1-2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libluajit-5.1-2
libluajit-5.1-2 is:
LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1. The virtual machine (VM) is API- and ABI-compatible to the standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
This package contains an embeddable version of LuaJIT that can be used as a replacement of the standard liblua-5.1 shared library. Task: ubuntustudio-video
There are three methods to install libluajit-5.1-2
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libluajit-5.1-2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libluajit-5.1-2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libluajit-5.1-2
Install libluajit-5.1-2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libluajit-5.1-2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libluajit-5.1-2
Install libluajit-5.1-2 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 libluajit-5.1-2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libluajit-5.1-2
How To Uninstall libluajit-5.1-2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libluajit-5.1-2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libluajit-5.1-2
Uninstall libluajit-5.1-2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libluajit-5.1-2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libluajit-5.1-2
Remove libluajit-5.1-2 Configurations and Data
To remove libluajit-5.1-2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libluajit-5.1-2
Remove libluajit-5.1-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libluajit-5.1-2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libluajit-5.1-2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libluajit-5.1-2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.