How To Install lua-penlight on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-penlight on Debian 11.
What is lua-penlight
lua-penlight is:
Penlight is a set of pure Lua libraries focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries.
There are three methods to install lua-penlight on Debian 11. 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-penlight 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-penlight using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-penlight
Install lua-penlight Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-penlight using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-penlight
Install lua-penlight Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-penlight using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-penlight
How To Uninstall lua-penlight on Debian 11
To uninstall only the lua-penlight package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-penlight
Uninstall lua-penlight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-penlight and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-penlight
Remove lua-penlight Configurations and Data
To remove lua-penlight configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-penlight
Remove lua-penlight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-penlight configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-penlight
Dependencies
lua-penlight have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-penlight package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.