Lua

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

Installation

To install Lua version 5.4:

sudo apt install lua5.4 liblua5.4-dev

To install Lua version 5.3:

sudo apt install lua5.3 liblua5.3-dev

To install Lua version 5.2:

sudo apt install lua5.2 liblua5.2-dev

Configuration

To set default Lua version manually:

sudo update-alternatives --config lua-compiler
sudo update-alternatives --config lua-interpreter