How to Install and Uninstall lua5.2 Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "lua5.2" package

This tutorial shows how to install lua5.2 on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                lua5.2
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "lua5.2" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall lua5.2 on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lua5.2
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lua5.2 package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: lua5.2
Source: lua5.2 (5.2.4-1.1)
Version: 5.2.4-1.1+b2
Installed-Size: 355
Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Architecture: amd64
Provides: lua
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libreadline7 (>= 6.0)
Description: Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language
Description-md5: 130003bb49100d21ad1dd4ef09dee02f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.lua.org
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lua5.2/lua5.2_5.2.4-1.1+b2_amd64.deb
Size: 98620
MD5sum: 870fbd245efbddeaf161c61dd8c99d3c
SHA256: b949d582f4a31fb191dc1086ef522a540a869500445617c43417a3599938c576