How To Install libselinux-ruby on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-ruby on Rocky Linux 8. libselinux-ruby is SELinux ruby bindings for libselinux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-ruby on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libselinux-ruby

The libselinux-ruby package contains the ruby bindings for developing SELinux applications.

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

Install libselinux-ruby 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-ruby using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libselinux-ruby

Install libselinux-ruby 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-ruby using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libselinux-ruby

How To Uninstall libselinux-ruby on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libselinux-ruby package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libselinux-ruby

libselinux-ruby Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/45886ad5cd78d3fd69b9d584b7b19f3319bba1
/usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/selinux.so

References

Summary

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