How To Install libselinux on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libselinux
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.
We can use yum or dnf to install libselinux on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libselinux.
Install libselinux 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 libselinux using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libselinux
Install libselinux 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 libselinux using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libselinux
How To Uninstall libselinux on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libselinux package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libselinux
libselinux Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/run/setrans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/d14ed20893f6e46e1b58bc40df0b73b05030bd
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/libselinux.conf
/usr/lib64/libselinux.so.1
/usr/share/licenses/libselinux
/usr/share/licenses/libselinux/LICENSE
/run/setrans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/08f8ae8b3205cbf0b2f62adf1a7d6342651fdb
/usr/lib/libselinux.so.1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/libselinux.conf
/usr/share/licenses/libselinux
/usr/share/licenses/libselinux/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
