tolua command not found

Introduction

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

tolua: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tolua: command not found

Solutions to tolua: command not found

How To Fix tolua: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tolua is provided by libtolua-dev package.

libtolua-dev is:

tolua is a tool that greatly simplifies the integration of C/C++ code with Lua. Based on a cleaned header file, tolua automatically generates the binding code to access C/C++ features from Lua. Using Lua API and tag method facilities, tolua maps C/C++ constants, external variables, functions, classes, and methods to Lua.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtolua-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libtolua-dev.

sudo apt -y install libtolua-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libtolua-dev

Summary

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