How To Install lua-messagepack on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lua-messagepack

lua-messagepack is:

Lua module that provides an API to convert Lua data structures to MessagePack, and vice versa.

MessagePack is an efficient binary serialization format.

It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like JSON but it’s faster, and smaller.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-messagepack

Install lua-messagepack Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-messagepack

Install lua-messagepack 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-messagepack using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-messagepack

How To Uninstall lua-messagepack on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-messagepack

Uninstall lua-messagepack And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-messagepack

Remove lua-messagepack Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-messagepack

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-messagepack have the following dependencies:

References

• lua-messagepack website

Summary

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