How To Install lua-augeas on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lua-augeas

lua-augeas is:

lua-augeas is a Lua binding to Augeas. Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and saving it back into native config files.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-augeas

Install lua-augeas Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-augeas

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-augeas

How To Uninstall lua-augeas on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-augeas

Uninstall lua-augeas And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-augeas

Remove lua-augeas Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-augeas

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-augeas have the following dependencies:

• libaugeas0
• libc6
• liblua5.1-0

References

• lua-augeas website

Summary

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