How To Install lua-cgi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-cgi on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lua-cgi
lua-cgi is:
CGILua is a tool for creating dynamic Web pages and manipulating input data from Web forms. CGILua allows the separation of logic and data handling from the generation of pages, making it easy to develop web applications with Lua.
CGILua requires a SAPI implementation to work. The lua-wsapi packages provides a few ready to use SAPI implementations.
This package also contains the documentation for the Lua CGI library.
There are three methods to install lua-cgi on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lua-cgi 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-cgi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-cgi
Install lua-cgi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-cgi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-cgi
Install lua-cgi 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 lua-cgi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-cgi
How To Uninstall lua-cgi on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lua-cgi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-cgi
Uninstall lua-cgi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-cgi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-cgi
Remove lua-cgi Configurations and Data
To remove lua-cgi configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-cgi
Remove lua-cgi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-cgi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-cgi
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-cgi package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
