How To Install texworks-scripting-lua on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is texworks-scripting-lua

texworks-scripting-lua is:

An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.

This package contains a lua scripting plugin for TeXworks.

There are three methods to install texworks-scripting-lua 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 texworks-scripting-lua Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install texworks-scripting-lua

Install texworks-scripting-lua Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install texworks-scripting-lua

Install texworks-scripting-lua 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 texworks-scripting-lua using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texworks-scripting-lua

How To Uninstall texworks-scripting-lua on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove texworks-scripting-lua

Uninstall texworks-scripting-lua And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove texworks-scripting-lua

Remove texworks-scripting-lua Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge texworks-scripting-lua

Remove texworks-scripting-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texworks-scripting-lua

Dependencies

texworks-scripting-lua have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• liblua5.3-0
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libstdc++6
• texworks

References

• texworks-scripting-lua website

Summary

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