How To Install lua on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua on Rocky Linux 8.
What is lua
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
We can use yum or dnf to install lua on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua.
Install lua on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lua using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lua
Install lua on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install lua using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lua
How To Uninstall lua on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the lua package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lua
lua Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/lua
/usr/bin/luac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/08ffda471e7655cdffb052282e8ed494e71382
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/49f77c8b3ff6d44ef6c64c597af2c3a51ad105
/usr/lib64/lua
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3
/usr/share/doc/lua
/usr/share/doc/lua/README
/usr/share/doc/lua/contents.html
/usr/share/doc/lua/index.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/logo.gif
/usr/share/doc/lua/lua.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/manual.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/lua/osi-certified-72x60.png
/usr/share/doc/lua/readme.html
/usr/share/licenses/lua
/usr/share/licenses/lua/mit.txt
/usr/share/lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3
/usr/share/man/man1/lua.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luac.1.gz
/usr/bin/lua
/usr/bin/luac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/99f6a109e7d53bf30c3befb50607ebc4ad6822
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/150d4079d6fb9b279b1e1bf3e119e34c1b4c71
/usr/lib/lua
/usr/lib/lua/5.3
/usr/share/doc/lua
/usr/share/doc/lua/README
/usr/share/doc/lua/contents.html
/usr/share/doc/lua/index.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/logo.gif
/usr/share/doc/lua/lua.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/manual.css
/usr/share/doc/lua/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/lua/osi-certified-72x60.png
/usr/share/doc/lua/readme.html
/usr/share/licenses/lua
/usr/share/licenses/lua/mit.txt
/usr/share/lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3
/usr/share/man/man1/lua.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luac.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.