How To Install lua-inspect on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-inspect
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lua-inspect
lua-inspect is:
This library transforms any Lua value into a human-readable representation. It is especially useful for debugging errors in tables.
The objective here is human understanding (i.e. for debugging), not serialization or compactness.
There are three methods to install lua-inspect
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-inspect 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-inspect
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-inspect
Install lua-inspect Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-inspect
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-inspect
Install lua-inspect 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-inspect
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-inspect
How To Uninstall lua-inspect on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lua-inspect
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-inspect
Uninstall lua-inspect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-inspect
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-inspect
Remove lua-inspect Configurations and Data
To remove lua-inspect
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-inspect
Remove lua-inspect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-inspect
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-inspect
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-inspect
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.