How to Install and Uninstall lua5.2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 17,2024

You can also install and uninstall the lua5.2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "lua5.2" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install lua5.2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall lua5.2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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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 12 (Bookworm)

Package: lua5.2
Version: 5.2.4-3
Installed-Size: 377
Maintainer: Debian Lua Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: lua
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libreadline8 (>= 6.0)
Description: Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language
Description-md5: 130003bb49100d21ad1dd4ef09dee02f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.lua.org
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lua5.2/lua5.2_5.2.4-3_amd64.deb
Size: 102752
MD5sum: 4db641a099a757a8a60c2b96a1edce37
SHA256: d54528a3a68f071354f2da16cdf7c7999ce5362f03b32c24aab57ab09c01f3b1