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Lua 5.3 installation/removal
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install.lua.md

Download, build and install Lua 5.4.

Requirements: Linux, bash.

Last checked: 2024-02-07

Download, build and install

#!/bin/bash

# Download and install Lua interpreter.

# Last mod.: 2024-02-07
# Last check: 2024-02-07

# Pre-flight requirements
sudo apt install libc-dev
sudo apt install libreadline-dev

# Source code URL
url="https://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.6.tar.gz"

# Download and unpack
cd /tmp
curl -R -O $url
tar zxf $(basename $url)
cd $(basename $url .tar.gz)

# Install
sudo make clean linux-readline install

Test

lua

Uninstall

Easy way: change last line of script to sudo make uninstall.

More conscious way: go to /tmp/lua... and sudo make uninstall from there.

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