How To Install lua-wsapi on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-wsapi on Kali Linux. lua-wsapi is Web server API abstraction layer for the Lua language

Introduction

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

What is lua-wsapi

lua-wsapi is:

WSAPI is an API that abstracts the web server for Lua web applications, allowing the same application to be used in different web servers.

This package contains the WSAPI utility libraries (for common tasks like url encoding/decoding) as well as the following backends (server implementations):

  • CGI (the regular environment-variables based protocol)
  • xavante (for the Xavante web server)

The fastcgi backends is available in the separate package lua-wsapi-fcgi.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lua-wsapi

Install lua-wsapi Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install lua-wsapi

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

sudo aptitude -y install lua-wsapi

How To Uninstall lua-wsapi on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove lua-wsapi

Uninstall lua-wsapi And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-wsapi

Remove lua-wsapi Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge lua-wsapi

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

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

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

Dependencies

lua-wsapi have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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