How To Install tomoyo-tools on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomoyo-tools on Debian 9. tomoyo-tools is lightweight Linux Mandatory Access Control system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomoyo-tools on Debian 9.

What is tomoyo-tools

tomoyo-tools is:

TOMOYO Linux is a lightweight and easy-to-use path-based Mandatory Access Control (MAC) implementation with:

  • automatic policy configuration via “learning” mode;
  • an administrator-friendly policy language;
  • no need for SELinux, or userland program modifications.

This package provides the audit daemon and administrative utilities for use on a Linux kernel with TOMOYO support (standard in Debian kernels).

There are three methods to install tomoyo-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install tomoyo-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tomoyo-tools

Install tomoyo-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tomoyo-tools

Install tomoyo-tools 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 tomoyo-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tomoyo-tools

How To Uninstall tomoyo-tools on Debian 9

To uninstall only the tomoyo-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tomoyo-tools

Uninstall tomoyo-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tomoyo-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tomoyo-tools

Remove tomoyo-tools Configurations and Data

To remove tomoyo-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tomoyo-tools

Remove tomoyo-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tomoyo-tools

Dependencies

tomoyo-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tomoyo-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.