How To Install libseccomp2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libseccomp2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libseccomp2
libseccomp2 is:
This library provides a high level interface to constructing, analyzing and installing seccomp filters via a BPF passed to the Linux Kernel’s prctl() syscall. Task: minimal Build-Essential: yes
Package: libseccomp2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.4.3-1ubuntu3.20.04.3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: important Section: libs Source: libseccomp Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Kees Cook [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 348 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/main/libs/libseccomp/libseccomp2_2.4.3-1ubuntu3.20.04.3_amd64.deb Size: 42404 MD5sum: 24037d7df873586d821b9271bfe8d93d SHA1: ad7c978007c03e9f65decd99c33170398ce7a357 SHA256: e102a721121cb27a19412317fa49ea19388036f28a219305dd26d5a2fe2bd49e SHA512: 39edb03913b11ccf49872097d45880b26ab559c04b0c83d06160757a02df351ec428db7cee11c709c2a7d7654d42c193d39da3487e36559be84b1bc777aaf81f Homepage: https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp Description-en: high level interface to Linux seccomp filter This library provides a high level interface to constructing, analyzing and installing seccomp filters via a BPF passed to the Linux Kernel’s prctl() syscall. Task: minimal Build-Essential: yes
Package: libseccomp2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.4.3-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: important Section: libs Source: libseccomp Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Kees Cook [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 348 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4) Filename: pool/main/libs/libseccomp/libseccomp2_2.4.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 41556 MD5sum: 7cfe4b86f1aeac285bc0fba48138da95 SHA1: c93a4d1294e4d28747ce4114360b85589826c965 SHA256: 484ddfe88dd977a452ea32669486e75598ce5855600506a1c868d4ae5b4992f2 Homepage: https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp Description-en: high level interface to Linux seccomp filter This library provides a high level interface to constructing, analyzing and installing seccomp filters via a BPF passed to the Linux Kernel’s prctl() syscall. Task: minimal Build-Essential: yes
There are three methods to install libseccomp2 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libseccomp2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libseccomp2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libseccomp2
Install libseccomp2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libseccomp2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libseccomp2
Install libseccomp2 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libseccomp2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libseccomp2
How To Uninstall libseccomp2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libseccomp2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libseccomp2
Uninstall libseccomp2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libseccomp2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libseccomp2
Remove libseccomp2 Configurations and Data
To remove libseccomp2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libseccomp2
Remove libseccomp2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libseccomp2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libseccomp2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libseccomp2 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
