一、安装

lua下载首页，lua文档地址，当前最新版本为5.3.4。

wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.4.tar.gz
tar -zxvf lua-5.3.4.tar.gz
cd lua-5.3.4
make linux test
make install

查看是否安装成功：

ma@ubuntu:/data/code$ lua -v
Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio

二、卸载

进入lua源码目录：

make uninstall

三、遇到的问题

[ma@localhost lua-5.3.4]$ make linux test
cd src && make linux
make[1]: Entering directory `/data/software/lua-5.3.4/src''
make all SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline"
make[2]: Entering directory `/data/software/lua-5.3.4/src''
gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -Wall -Wextra -DLUA_COMPAT_5_2 -DLUA_USE_LINUX    -c -o lua.o lua.c
lua.c:82:31: fatal error: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
 #include <readline/readline.h>
                               ^
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [lua.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/software/lua-5.3.4/src''
make[1]: *** [linux] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/software/lua-5.3.4/src''
make: *** [linux] Error 2

解决方案

# centos
    yum install readline-devel
# debian
    apt-get install libreadline-dev