How to Install and Uninstall luarocks Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 17,2024

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

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "luarocks" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install luarocks on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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


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

Package: luarocks
Version: 3.8.0+dfsg1-1
Installed-Size: 1144
Maintainer: Debian Lua Team
Architecture: all
Depends: lua-any, lua5.1 | lua5.2 | lua5.3, liblua5.1-dev | liblua5.2-dev | liblua5.3-dev, wget, zip, unzip
Recommends: lua-sec
Description: deployment and management system for Lua modules
Description-md5: b888f425d832481f23d488080ca87698
Homepage: https://luarocks.org/
Tag: devel::packaging, implemented-in::lua, role::program
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/luarocks/luarocks_3.8.0+dfsg1-1_all.deb
Size: 147724
MD5sum: 6bde2dd4b949294ba2c1cf6d1e5cbab6
SHA256: 269cf79d76b67d55a540ae1de55f8420fb46e2f867d5309da4f1ee38bd07a1db