How To Install compartment on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install compartment on Debian 9. compartment is Confine services in a limited environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compartment on Debian 9.

What is compartment

compartment is:

Compartment was designed to allow safe execution of privileged and/or untrusted executables and services. It can execute a process:

  • Setting specific Linux capabilities
  • Chrooting it to a certain location
  • setting the user or group it will run with
  • running a program before it is executed These features can be used to minimize the risk of a trojanized or vulnerable program/service.

There are three methods to install compartment on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install compartment Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install compartment using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install compartment

Install compartment Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install compartment using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install compartment

Install compartment Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install compartment using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install compartment

How To Uninstall compartment on Debian 9

To uninstall only the compartment package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove compartment

Uninstall compartment And Its Dependencies

To uninstall compartment and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove compartment

Remove compartment Configurations and Data

To remove compartment configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge compartment

Remove compartment configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove compartment configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compartment

Dependencies

compartment have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compartment package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.