How To Install lua-lunit on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is lua-lunit

Lunit is a unit testing framework for lua, written in lua. Lunit provides 26 assert functions, and a few misc functions for usage in an easy unit testing framework. Lunit comes with a test suite to test itself. The testsuite consists of approximately 710 assertions.

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

Install lua-lunit 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-lunit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua-lunit

Install lua-lunit 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-lunit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua-lunit

How To Uninstall lua-lunit on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove lua-lunit

References

• lua-lunit website

Summary

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