How to Install and Uninstall luarocks Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "luarocks" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                luarocks
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "luarocks" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall luarocks on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: luarocks
Priority: optional
Section: universe/interpreters
Installed-Size: 488
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Enrico Tassi
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2.0+dfsg-2
Depends: lua5.1, liblua5.1-dev, wget, zip
Filename: pool/universe/l/luarocks/luarocks_2.2.0+dfsg-2_all.deb
Size: 87802
MD5sum: 4d1d6fcbf2caafef22c7a1a454f251a0
SHA1: 54ae8cbea206d4075632f87cdd812ee9e6b59298
SHA256: 94c2928a614ca07ded28f20a736359ca90bdbea8db4c90957b9f3aeb3a43e59b
Description-en: deployment and management system for Lua modules
This package contains LuaRocks, a tool for managing rocks. A Lua rock is a
bundle containing a module and some metadata like compilation instructions and
copyright. The command line utility luarocks can download, build, install and
remove rocks, properly handling dependencies among them and allowing multiple
versions of the same rock to coexist.
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The tool installs system-wide rocks in /usr/local when run by the superuser,
but a regular user can easily tune it to install rocks in his home directory.
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This package also provides the luarocks-admin tool, needed to create a rocks
repository, and the documentation for luarocks, describing the command line
tools as well as the library to manipulate rocks.
Description-md5: b888f425d832481f23d488080ca87698
Homepage: http://luarocks.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu