As Android world use Java mostly for its language then I found Lua is another language that powering many games. I want to try it on my Ubuntu desktop and see how it goes :
$ sudo apt-get install lua
[sudo] password for alamsyah:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package lua is a virtual package provided by:
lua50 5.0.3-6
lua5.2 5.2.1-3
lua5.1 5.1.5-4
You should explicitly select one to install.
I choose Lua 5.2
$ sudo apt-get install lua5.2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lua5.2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 341 not upgraded.
Need to get 159 kB of archives.
After this operation, 357 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://id.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe lua5.2 i386 5.2.1-3 [159 kB]
Fetched 159 kB in 2s (57,1 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package lua5.2.
(Reading database … 200688 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lua5.2 (from …/lua5.2_5.2.1-3_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up lua5.2 (5.2.1-3) …
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/lua5.2 to provide /usr/bin/lua (lua-interpreter) in auto mode
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/luac5.2 to provide /usr/bin/luac (lua-compiler) in auto mode
$
Checking version :
$ lua -v
Lua 5.2.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
$ luac -v
Lua 5.2.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
Nice, ready for the ‘moon’.