How To Install lua-event on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-event
on Debian 10.
What is lua-event
lua-event is:
This package contains the bindings for libevent, a synchronous event notification library that provides a mechanish to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached.
There are three methods to install lua-event
on Debian 10. 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-event 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-event
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-event
Install lua-event Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-event
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-event
Install lua-event 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-event
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-event
How To Uninstall lua-event on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lua-event
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-event
Uninstall lua-event And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-event
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-event
Remove lua-event Configurations and Data
To remove lua-event
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-event
Remove lua-event configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-event
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-event
Dependencies
lua-event have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-event
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.