How To Install lua-lpeg on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-lpeg
on Kali Linux.
What is lua-lpeg
lua-lpeg is:
LPeg is a new pattern-matching library for Lua, based on Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs). PEGs look similar to regular expressions or context-free grammars in Backus-Naur form (BNF) notation. PEGs make a good replacement for regular expressions, because they are strictly more powerful. For example, a regular expression inherently cannot find matched pairs of parentheses, because it is not recursive, but a PEG can.
There are three methods to install lua-lpeg
on Kali Linux. 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-lpeg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lua-lpeg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install lua-lpeg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lua-lpeg
using apt
by running the following command:
Install lua-lpeg Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install lua-lpeg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lua-lpeg on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lua-lpeg
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall lua-lpeg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-lpeg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove lua-lpeg Configurations and Data
To remove lua-lpeg
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove lua-lpeg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-lpeg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
lua-lpeg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-lpeg
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.