How To Install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8.

What is lua-devel

This package contains development files for lua.

We can use yum or dnf to install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-devel.

Install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lua-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-devel

Install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install lua-devel

How To Uninstall lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove lua-devel

lua-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/include/lauxlib.h
/usr/include/lua.h
/usr/include/lua.hpp
/usr/include/luaconf-i386.h
/usr/include/luaconf.h
/usr/include/lualib.h
/usr/lib/liblua.so
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/lua.pc
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.lua
/usr/include/lauxlib.h
/usr/include/lua.h
/usr/include/lua.hpp
/usr/include/luaconf-x86_64.h
/usr/include/luaconf.h
/usr/include/lualib.h
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.lua
/usr/lib64/liblua.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/lua.pc

References

• lua-devel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.