How to Install lua5.1 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install lua5.1 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

lua5.1 software package provides Simple, extensible, embeddable programming 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 lua5.1 

lua5.1 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the lua5.1 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep lua5.1 *

You will get with lua5.1 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

lua5.1 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
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Package lua5.1
Version 5.1.5-5ubuntu0.1 [amd64, i386]
Description Simple, extensible, embeddable programming language
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See Also, How to uninstall or remove lua5.1 software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?