How To Install lua-nginx-cookie on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-nginx-cookie on Kali Linux. lua-nginx-cookie is Pure Lua cookie parser for the nginx embedded Lua language

Introduction

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

lua-nginx-cookie is:

This library parses HTTP Cookie header for Nginx and returns each field in the cookie.

There are three methods to install lua-nginx-cookie 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.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-nginx-cookie

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-nginx-cookie

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-nginx-cookie using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-nginx-cookie

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-nginx-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-nginx-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-nginx-cookie

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-nginx-cookie

Dependencies

lua-nginx-cookie have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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