How To Install lua-rex-posix on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-rex-posix on Debian 9.

What is lua-rex-posix

lua-rex-posix is:

This package provides bindings for POSIX regular expressions to the Lua language.

There are three methods to install lua-rex-posix on Debian 9. 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-rex-posix 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-rex-posix using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install lua-rex-posix

Install lua-rex-posix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-rex-posix

Install lua-rex-posix 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-rex-posix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install lua-rex-posix

How To Uninstall lua-rex-posix on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-rex-posix

Uninstall lua-rex-posix And Its Dependencies

To uninstall lua-rex-posix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-rex-posix

Remove lua-rex-posix Configurations and Data

To remove lua-rex-posix configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-rex-posix

Remove lua-rex-posix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-rex-posix

Dependencies

lua-rex-posix have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• lua-rex-posix website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-rex-posix package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.