How To Install lua-systemd on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-systemd
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lua-systemd
lua-systemd is:
This package provides a library for working with systemd from scripts and daemons written in Lua.
Where necessary, the low level libsystemd functions have been bound in C. Higher level functions with more idiomatic Lua semantics are written in Lua on top of these C primitives.
There are three methods to install lua-systemd
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-systemd 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-systemd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-systemd
Install lua-systemd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-systemd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-systemd
Install lua-systemd 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-systemd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-systemd
How To Uninstall lua-systemd on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lua-systemd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-systemd
Uninstall lua-systemd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-systemd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-systemd
Remove lua-systemd Configurations and Data
To remove lua-systemd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-systemd
Remove lua-systemd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-systemd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-systemd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-systemd
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.