How To Install lua-orbit on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lua-orbit

lua-orbit is:

Orbit is a library for developing web applications according to the Model-View-Controller paradigm in Lua.

Orbit also includes a basic OR mapper that currently only works with lua-sql SQLite3 driver.

This package also contains the documentation and some sample applications for the orbit MVC framework.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-orbit

Install lua-orbit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-orbit

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-orbit

How To Uninstall lua-orbit on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-orbit

Uninstall lua-orbit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-orbit

Remove lua-orbit Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-orbit

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-orbit have the following dependencies:

• lua-wsapi
• lua-filesystem
• lua-cosmo

References

• lua-orbit website

Summary

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