How to install luajit2 on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux & RHEL

OpenResty's Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua

License: MIT https://github.com/openresty/luajit2

Availability

Distro	aarch64	noarch	x86_64	Version
RHEL 10	✓	—	✓	2.1
RHEL 9	✓	—	✓	2.1
RHEL 8	✓	—	✓	2.1
RHEL 7	✓	—	✓	2.1
RHEL 6	—	—	✓	2.1

Description

OpenResty's maintained branch of LuaJIT. Note that these packages do not have "Provides: luajit" intentionally, as they are only meant to be consumed explicitly, e.g. by OpenResty's NGINX Lua module. Thus the libname is as per upstream, luajit2. If you want to link against luajit2, use, e.g. pkgconfig(luajit2). LuaJIT implements the full set of language features defined by Lua 5.1. The virtual machine (VM) is API- and ABI-compatible to the standard Lua interpreter and can be deployed as a drop-in replacement. This RPM was obtained from extras.getpagespeed.com

Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Install

luajit2 on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux / Oracle Linux / RHEL 8, 9, 10

sudo dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo dnf -y install luajit2

luajit2 on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install luajit2

luajit2 on CentOS / RHEL 6

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install luajit2

Frequently asked questions

How do I install luajit2 on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL?

Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then run: sudo dnf -y install luajit2 (use yum on EL7). The same package works on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS Stream and RHEL.

Which Enterprise Linux versions is luajit2 available for?

luajit2 is available for RHEL 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and the matching AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux releases.

Is luajit2 compatible with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream?

Yes. The RPM is built for Enterprise Linux and is binary-compatible across all RHEL rebuilds of the same major version, including AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream.