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

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "lua-socket" package

This guide let you learn how to install lua-socket on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall lua-socket on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: lua-socket
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Installed-Size: 563
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Architecture: amd64
Source: luasocket
Version: 3.0~rc1+git+321c0c9-1
Provides: lua5.1-socket, lua5.2-socket, lua5.3-socket
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/l/luasocket/lua-socket_3.0~rc1+git+321c0c9-1_amd64.deb
Size: 63088
MD5sum: a4d382af2d5a5b4259bbfaede3fa01f6
SHA1: da9f9b3fca5539e07de9e432123553986f7c96f6
SHA256: d665ce0e28e1f04a0067f40f651930a44c4d86945fe2ffd92b255e11d61f2627
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
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/
Lua-Versions: 5.3 5.1 5.2
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu