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

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux-utils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libselinux-utils.x86_64 is SELinux libselinux utilies

Introduction

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

What is libselinux-utils.x86_64

The libselinux-utils package contains the utilities

We can use yum to install libselinux-utils.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-utils.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libselinux-utils.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libselinux-utils.x86_64

libselinux-utils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/avcstat
/usr/sbin/getenforce
/usr/sbin/getsebool
/usr/sbin/matchpathcon
/usr/sbin/selabel_digest
/usr/sbin/selabel_lookup
/usr/sbin/selabel_lookup_best_match
/usr/sbin/selabel_partial_match
/usr/sbin/selinux_restorecon
/usr/sbin/selinuxconlist
/usr/sbin/selinuxdefcon
/usr/sbin/selinuxenabled
/usr/sbin/selinuxexeccon
/usr/sbin/setenforce
/usr/share/man/man5/booleans.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/customizable_types.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/default_contexts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/default_type.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/failsafe_context.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/file_contexts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/file_contexts.homedirs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/file_contexts.local.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/file_contexts.subs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/file_contexts.subs_dist.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/local.users.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/media.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/removable_context.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/secolor.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/securetty_types.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/selabel_db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/selabel_file.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/selabel_media.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/selabel_x.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sepgsql_contexts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/service_seusers.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/seusers.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/user_contexts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/virtual_domain_context.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/virtual_image_context.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/x_contexts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/avcstat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/booleans.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/getenforce.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/getsebool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/matchpathcon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sefcontext_compile.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/selinux.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/selinuxconlist.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/selinuxdefcon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/selinuxenabled.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/selinuxexeccon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setenforce.8.gz

References

Summary

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