How to Install and Uninstall lua-curses Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "lua-curses" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install lua-curses on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall lua-curses on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                lua-curses
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the lua-curses package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: lua-curses
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 157
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Architecture: amd64
Source: lua-posix
Version: 31-2build1
Provides: lua5.1-curses, lua5.2-curses
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libncursesw5 (>= 6), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Filename: pool/universe/l/lua-posix/lua-curses_31-2build1_amd64.deb
Size: 24222
MD5sum: c244bc6a4f82d5e0812fd922989eb650
SHA1: 2a3067d6fb6fda28f2b7c3af4f99be3f4f04b8e3
SHA256: e5441b5f0ee736c8bb35262290dd493dd1f248d1243e0a4a9598f440f3c86ede
Description-en: curses library for the Lua language
This package contains the Lua curses library to create text mode user
interfaces.
Description-md5: 27ec0ef649e445de13d11e30240b3973
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/luaposix/luaposix
Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu