How To Install lua-wsapi on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-wsapi on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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-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 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-wsapi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-wsapi
How To Uninstall lua-wsapi on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-wsapi package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
