How To Install checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is checkpolicy.x86_64
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. This package contains checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler. Only required for building policies.
We can use yum to install checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install checkpolicy.x86_64.
Install checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install checkpolicy.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install checkpolicy.x86_64
How To Uninstall checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the checkpolicy.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove checkpolicy.x86_64
checkpolicy.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/bin/checkmodule
/usr/bin/checkpolicy
/usr/bin/sedismod
/usr/bin/sedispol
/usr/share/licenses/checkpolicy-2.5
/usr/share/licenses/checkpolicy-2.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/checkmodule.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/checkpolicy.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.