How To Install luarocks-admin on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install luarocks

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install luarocks

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is luarocks-admin and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install luarocks-admin on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install luarocks-admin on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install luarocks-admin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install luarocks

Install luarocks-admin on CentOS 8 using yum

Because luarocks-admin is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install luarocks-admin package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install luarocks

How to upgrade (update) a single package luarocks-admin using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like luarocks-admin in this example you should use the following command:

yum update luarocks

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade luarocks

How to Upgrade luarocks-admin on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update luarocks

How To remove luarocks-admin from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the luarocks-admin package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove luarocks

Extra info and code examples

This package contains LuaRocks, a tool for managing rocks. A Lua rock is a bundle containing a module and some metadata like compilation instructions and copyright. The command line utility luarocks can download, build, install and remove rocks, properly handling dependencies among them and allowing multiple versions of the same rock to coexist. The tool installs system-wide rocks in /usr/local when run by the superuser, but a regular user can easily tune it to install rocks in his home directory. This package also provides the luarocks-admin tool, needed to create a rocks repository, and the documentation for luarocks, describing the command line tools as well as the library to manipulate rocks.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install luarocks-admin using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the luarocks-admin from CentOS 8.

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