How To Install luarocks on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luarocks on Kali Linux.
What is luarocks
luarocks is:
This package contains LuaRocks, a tool for managing rocks. A Lua rock is a bundle containing a module and some metadata like compilation instructions and copyright. The command line utility luarocks can download, build, install and remove rocks, properly handling dependencies among them and allowing multiple versions of the same rock to coexist.
The tool installs system-wide rocks in /usr/local when run by the superuser, but a regular user can easily tune it to install rocks in his home directory.
This package also provides the luarocks-admin tool, needed to create a rocks repository, and the documentation for luarocks, describing the command line tools as well as the library to manipulate rocks.
There are three methods to install luarocks 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 luarocks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install luarocks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install luarocksInstall luarocks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install luarocks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install luarocksInstall luarocks 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install luarocks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install luarocksHow To Uninstall luarocks on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the luarocks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove luarocksUninstall luarocks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall luarocks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove luarocksRemove luarocks Configurations and Data
To remove luarocks configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge luarocksRemove luarocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove luarocks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luarocksDependencies
luarocks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luarocks package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
