Luakit browser is built on top of webkit for a better and lightweight browsing experience. It helps users navigate faster, supports tabs, and comes under a GNU license. It is written in the Lua programming language. Therefore the application name drives from both Lua and Webkit. You do not need Lua or webkit installed before installing the browser packages.
Here at LinuxAPT, we shall look into how to install luakit on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish.
To begin, update your system packages with the below command:
$ sudo apt update
Now, run the below command to install Luakit:
$ sudo apt install luakit
You can confirm if Luakit browser is installed using the command line query:
$ luakit --version
As soon as you locate the browser, you will be able to launch it too as well. It depends on you how to launch it. Both command line and graphical user interface can be used for the launching purpose.
You can remove Luakit from your Ubuntu system by running the below command:
$ sudo apt remove luakit
This article covers how to install luakit browser on Ubuntu 22.04. In fact, Luakit is a highly-configurable browser framework based on WebKitGTK+. It is very fast and extensible by Lua. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and any people with too much time on their hands who want to have fine-grained control over their web browser’s behaviour and interface.
