How to Install and Uninstall lua-readline Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the lua-readline on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "lua-readline" package

Please follow the guidance below to install lua-readline on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                lua-readline
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "lua-readline" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall lua-readline on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lua-readline package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: lua-readline
Version: 3.2-2
Installed-Size: 131
Maintainer: Debian Lua Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: lua5.1-readline, lua5.2-readline, lua5.3-readline, lua5.4-readline
Depends: lua-posix, libc6 (>= 2.4), libreadline8 (>= 7.0~beta)
Description: readline library for the Lua language
Description-md5: 666c6adf2843bdd93cd9de8cf15abc65
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://pjb.com.au/comp/lua/readline.html
Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lua-readline/lua-readline_3.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 14760
MD5sum: 5052bd415c6df6842d94ae07402c820d
SHA256: ddaac09693cdd90971e7380aae8a08877bf12307706e04816b263788b526afcf