lua-any command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

lua-any: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lua-any: command not found

Solutions to lua-any: command not found

How To Fix lua-any: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu lua-any is provided by lua-any package.

lua-any is:

Some Lua script do actually work with many, but not all, Lua versions in the Debian archive. This package contains the lua-any interpreter to be used in the shebang lines of such scripts. lua-any reads metadata stored in comments in the Lua script and selects an appropriate Lua interpreter.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install lua-any

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install lua-any.

sudo apt -y install lua-any

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install lua-any

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix lua-any command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.