How To Install lua-lxc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-lxc on Kali Linux. lua-lxc is Linux Containers userspace tools (Lua bindings)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-lxc on Kali Linux.

What is lua-lxc

lua-lxc is:

Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.

This package contains the Lua bindings.

There are three methods to install lua-lxc 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-lxc 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-lxc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-lxc

Install lua-lxc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-lxc

Install lua-lxc 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.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install lua-lxc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-lxc

How To Uninstall lua-lxc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-lxc

Uninstall lua-lxc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lua-lxc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-lxc

Remove lua-lxc Configurations and Data

To remove lua-lxc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-lxc

Remove lua-lxc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove lua-lxc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-lxc

Dependencies

lua-lxc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-lxc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.