How To Install luadoc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install luadoc on Kali Linux. luadoc is Documentation generation library for the Lua language

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install luadoc on Kali Linux.

What is luadoc

luadoc is:

LuaDoc is a documentation generator tool for Lua source code. It parses the declarations and documentation comments in a set of Lua source files and produces a set of XHTML pages describing the commented declarations and functions.

This package contains the luadoc library for Lua. For the command line utility, install the luadoc package.

There are three methods to install luadoc 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 luadoc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install luadoc

Install luadoc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install luadoc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install luadoc

Install luadoc 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 luadoc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install luadoc

How To Uninstall luadoc on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove luadoc

Uninstall luadoc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove luadoc

Remove luadoc Configurations and Data

To remove luadoc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge luadoc

Remove luadoc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luadoc

Dependencies

luadoc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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