How To Install lua-copas on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lua-copas

lua-copas is:

Copas is a dispatcher of concurrent TCP/IP requests based on corutines. A server registered with Copas should provide a handler for requests and use Copas socket functions to send the response. Copas loops through requests and invokes the corresponding handlers.

This package also contains the documentation of copas.

There are three methods to install lua-copas 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-copas 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-copas using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-copas

Install lua-copas Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-copas

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-copas

How To Uninstall lua-copas on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-copas

Uninstall lua-copas And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-copas

Remove lua-copas Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-copas

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-copas have the following dependencies:

• lua-coxpcall
• lua-socket

References

• lua-copas website

Summary

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