How To Install usbguard-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbguard-selinux on Rocky Linux 8. usbguard-selinux is USBGuard selinux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usbguard-selinux on Rocky Linux 8.

What is usbguard-selinux

The usbguard-selinux package contains selinux policy for the USBGuard daemon.

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

Install usbguard-selinux 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 usbguard-selinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usbguard-selinux

Install usbguard-selinux 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 usbguard-selinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usbguard-selinux

How To Uninstall usbguard-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the usbguard-selinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove usbguard-selinux

usbguard-selinux Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/selinux/devel/include/contrib/ipp-usbguard.if
/usr/share/selinux/packages/targeted/usbguard.pp.bz2
/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/200/usbguard

References

Summary

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