How to Install lua-socket in Ubuntu 18.04



Install lua-socket by entering the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install lua-socket

Description:

TCP/UDP socket library for the Lua language

Luasocket provides a TCP/UDP socket library for the Lua language . Also provided are HTTP and SMTP implementations, a simple FTP implementation and some URL parsing functions. . Luasocket supports blocking and non-blocking sockets and also provides a select() interface to the language.

Homepage: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/software/luasocket/

Version: 3.0~rc1+git+ac3201d-4

Section: universe/interpreters