How to Install and Uninstall lua5.2 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "lua5.2" package

This guide let you learn how to install lua5.2 on Kali Linux


    
        
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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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall lua5.2 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

Package: lua5.2
Source: lua5.2 (5.2.4-3)
Version: 5.2.4-3+b1
Installed-Size: 382
Maintainer: Debian Lua Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: lua
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libreadline8 (>= 6.0)
Size: 103320
SHA256: e5313f9507a49cb27c8820f901f9acbf34250a05f5910f9bae827c05c2961842
SHA1: d73939ab5b46255cf27a8b7382dc95744faa3fe1
MD5sum: fb6de3ff05c7fa6c81b471850acb0303
Description: Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language
Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending
applications. The language engine is accessible as a library, having a C
API which allows the application to exchange data with Lua programs and also
to extend Lua with C functions. Lua is also used as a general-purpose,
stand-alone language through the simple command line interpreter provided.
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This package contains the Lua command line interpreter and bytecode compiler.
Install it if you are developing or using Lua scripts.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.lua.org
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lua5.2/lua5.2_5.2.4-3+b1_amd64.deb