How To Install lua53.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua53.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is lua53.x86_64
Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
We can use yum to install lua53.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.x86_64.
Install lua53.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lua53.x86_64
How To Uninstall lua53.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the lua53.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove lua53.x86_64
lua53.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/lua53
/usr/bin/luac53
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/README
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/contents.html
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/index.css
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/logo.gif
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/lua.css
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/manual.css
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/osi-certified-72x60.png
/usr/share/doc/lua53-5.3.5/readme.html
/usr/share/licenses/lua53-5.3.5
/usr/share/licenses/lua53-5.3.5/mit.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lua53.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/luac53.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua53.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.