How To Install lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua53-libs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. lua53-libs.x86_64 is Libraries for lua53

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `lua53-libs.x86_64`

This package contains the shared libraries for lua53.

We can use yum to install lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lua53-libs.x86_64.

Install lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install lua53-libs.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lua53-libs.x86_64

How To Uninstall lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the lua53-libs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove lua53-libs.x86_64

lua53-libs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/liblua-5.3.so
/usr/lib64/lua
/usr/lib64/lua/5.3
/usr/share/lua
/usr/share/lua/5.3

References

lua53-libs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install lua53-libs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.