How To Install lua on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua
on CentOS 7.
What is lua
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lua
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua.
Install lua on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lua
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lua on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lua
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lua on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lua
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.