How To Install libselinux-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-python.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libselinux-python.x86_64 is SELinux python bindings for libselinux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libselinux-python.x86_64`

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

We can use yum to install libselinux-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libselinux-python.x86_64.

Install libselinux-python.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 libselinux-python.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libselinux-python.x86_64

How To Uninstall libselinux-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libselinux-python.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libselinux-python.x86_64

libselinux-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_selinux.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/selinux/audit2why.so

References

libselinux-python.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-python.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.