lua-rex-posix software package provides POSIX regular expressions library for the Lua language, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install lua-rex-posix
lua-rex-posix is installed in your system.
Make ensure the lua-rex-posix package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep lua-rex-posix *
You will get with lua-rex-posix package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Interpreters |
| Package | lua-rex-posix |
| Version | 2.7.2-2 |
| Description | POSIX regular expressions library for the Lua language |
| Sub Section | Interpreters |