How To Install lua-unit on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is lua-unit

lua-unit is:

Luaunit is a unit-testing framework for Lua, in the spirit of many others unit-testing framework. Luaunit lets you write test functions, test classes with test methods and setup/teardown functionality.

Luaunit can output test failures using the TAP format, for easier integration into Continuous Integration platforms like Jenkins.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-unit

Install lua-unit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-unit

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-unit

How To Uninstall lua-unit on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-unit

Uninstall lua-unit And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-unit

Remove lua-unit Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-unit

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-unit have the following dependencies:

References

• lua-unit website

Summary

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