How To Install setools on Debian 10

Learn how to install setools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. setools is tools for Security Enhanced Linux policy analysis

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install setools on Debian 10.

What is setools

setools is:

Security-enhanced Linux is a patch of the Linux kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. These are Tools for analysing security policy on SELinux systems.

This package contains the following CLI tools:

  • sediff: SELinux policy difference tool
  • sedta: domain transition analysis for SELinux policies
  • seinfo: SELinux policy information tool
  • seinfoflow: information flow analysis for SELinux policies
  • sesearch: SELinux policy query tool

There are three methods to install setools on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install setools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install setools

Install setools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install setools

Install setools 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 setools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install setools

How To Uninstall setools on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove setools

Uninstall setools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall setools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove setools

Remove setools Configurations and Data

To remove setools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge setools

Remove setools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge setools

Dependencies

setools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install setools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.