How To Install luajit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luajit on CentOS 7.
What is luajit
LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1. The virtual machine (VM) is API- and ABI-compatible to the standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement.
We can use yum or dnf to install luajit on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install luajit.
Install luajit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install luajit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install luajit
Install luajit on CentOS 7 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 luajit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install luajit
How To Uninstall luajit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the luajit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove luajit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luajit on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.