How To Install lua5 on CentOS 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua5 on CentOS 8.

What is lua5

We can use yum or dnf to install lua5 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua5.

Install lua5 on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lua5 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua5

Install lua5 on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install lua5 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lua5

How To Uninstall lua5 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the lua5 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lua5

References

• lua5 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua5 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.