How To Install lua-dbi-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-dbi-common on Debian 12.
What is lua-dbi-common
lua-dbi-common is:
Lua DBI is a database interface library for Lua. It is designed to provide a RDBMS agnostic API for handling database operations. LuaDBI also provides support for prepared statement handles, placeholders and bind parameters for all database operations.
This package contains the files common to all backends.
Lua DBI is a better alternative to lua-sql since it supports prepared statements.
There are three methods to install lua-dbi-common on Debian 12. 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-dbi-common 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-dbi-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-dbi-common
Install lua-dbi-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-dbi-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-dbi-common
Install lua-dbi-common 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-dbi-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-dbi-common
How To Uninstall lua-dbi-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the lua-dbi-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-dbi-common
Uninstall lua-dbi-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-dbi-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-dbi-common
Remove lua-dbi-common Configurations and Data
To remove lua-dbi-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-dbi-common
Remove lua-dbi-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-dbi-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-dbi-common
Dependencies
lua-dbi-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-dbi-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
