How To Install lua-cjson on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-cjson on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lua-cjson
lua-cjson is:
This library allows you to easily convert Lua values to JSON strings and back. Features:
- Fast, standards compliant encoding/parsing routines
- Full support for JSON with UTF-8, including decoding surrogate pairs
- Optional run-time support for common exceptions to the JSON specification (infinity, NaN,..)
- No dependencies on other libraries Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2
There are three methods to install lua-cjson on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lua-cjson Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-cjson using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-cjson
Install lua-cjson Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-cjson using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-cjson
Install lua-cjson Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-cjson using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-cjson
How To Uninstall lua-cjson on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lua-cjson package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-cjson
Uninstall lua-cjson And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-cjson and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-cjson
Remove lua-cjson Configurations and Data
To remove lua-cjson configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-cjson
Remove lua-cjson configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-cjson configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-cjson
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-cjson package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
