How to Install and Uninstall lua-socket Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: September 16,2024

1. Install "lua-socket" package

This is a short guide on how to install lua-socket on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall lua-socket on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lua-socket
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lua-socket package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: lua-socket
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.0~rc1+git+ac3201d-5
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Source: luasocket
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 774
Provides: lua5.1-socket, lua5.2-socket, lua5.3-socket, lua5.4-socket
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/l/luasocket/lua-socket_3.0~rc1+git+ac3201d-5_amd64.deb
Size: 79118
MD5sum: 42d3f54dc6f831695c8a58d6580d489b
SHA1: 8afb61479239c4b539702cb110b0ad4fe3c253df
SHA256: c1352e20368406d5bfca1c4ef9924e91a2026ff4fa49f73cc5a1e318fcb67f5c
SHA512: ebcd4e973a1289a4d083a5bc81dda92059a45d87e78e6145ac3c4fc9da2b48ccf6b17dcde9e463dface737416c6d3cd1d6ef5858475444627c8f1cb84385bc40
Homepage: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/
Description-en: TCP/UDP socket library for the Lua language
Luasocket provides a TCP/UDP socket library for the Lua language
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Also provided are HTTP and SMTP implementations, a simple
FTP implementation and some URL parsing functions.
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Luasocket supports blocking and non-blocking sockets
and also provides a select() interface to the language.
Description-md5: 16d98ec2922d284e0842f9c8bd770d31
Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4