How to Install and Uninstall liblua5.2-dev Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: March 14,2025

You can also install and uninstall the liblua5.2-dev on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "liblua5.2-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install liblua5.2-dev on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "liblua5.2-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall liblua5.2-dev on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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3. Information about the liblua5.2-dev package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: liblua5.2-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.2.4-2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: lua5.2
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Lua Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 901
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, liblua5.2-0 (= 5.2.4-2), libreadline-dev
Recommends: libtool-bin, pkg-config
Filename: pool/universe/l/lua5.2/liblua5.2-dev_5.2.4-2_amd64.deb
Size: 149580
MD5sum: 701885c9abd472d620207d35c3564975
SHA1: ed03d7b6f201205a8c39f7a723ce136db117ad02
SHA256: 15bc37bcd0280c718654fed68818b637616da3aeb6d11298a73fe19e15a2a109
SHA512: fa383acd1ec5d87d5b64699f96eebe93dadc5b8c4adb3bfa39ea08f40174535ba7049403571adba94ca3f2e644762c8e9c924e1b17802713b8aaca292a7d21a9
Homepage: https://www.lua.org
Description: Development files for the Lua language version 5.2
Description-md5: cb939e19e8470a092c76923ad164a65d