How To Install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fail2ban-selinux

SELinux policies for Fail2Ban.

We can use yum or dnf to install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fail2ban-selinux.

Install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-selinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fail2ban-selinux

Install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-selinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fail2ban-selinux

How To Uninstall fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the fail2ban-selinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fail2ban-selinux

fail2ban-selinux Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/licenses/fail2ban-selinux
/usr/share/licenses/fail2ban-selinux/COPYING
/usr/share/selinux/packages/targeted/fail2ban.pp.bz2
/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/200/fail2ban

References

• fail2ban-selinux website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.