How To Install lua-event on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-event on CentOS 7. lua-event is This is a binding of libevent to Lua

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-event on CentOS 7.

What is lua-event

This package contains the bindings for libevent, a synchronous event notification library that provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.

We can use yum or dnf to install lua-event on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua-event.

Install lua-event on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install lua-event

Install lua-event 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.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install lua-event

How To Uninstall lua-event on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lua-event

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-event on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.