Complete Guide: Installing lua-rex-pcre on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2025

1. Install "lua-rex-pcre" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "lua-rex-pcre" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall lua-rex-pcre on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: lua-rex-pcre
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Installed-Size: 120
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Architecture: amd64
Source: lua-rexlib
Version: 2.7.2-3
Provides: lua5.1-rex-pcre, lua5.2-rex-pcre
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libpcre3
Pre-Depends: multiarch-support
Filename: pool/universe/l/lua-rexlib/lua-rex-pcre_2.7.2-3_amd64.deb
Size: 18084
MD5sum: 619a4423e1a0cd4fb392677ab31211b7
SHA1: 19a6d5dacca1559ec44a2c28c97a6f84cab49725
SHA256: aba6315185f65a2813bfbf33df96e36c153e48a40dfea186012809e36264368b
Description-en: Perl regular expressions library for the Lua language
This package provides bindings for Perl regular expressions to the Lua
language.
Description-md5: 8a5222caa42784792e7bd7950ed63c55
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://lrexlib.luaforge.net/
Lua-Versions: 5.1 5.2
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu