How To Install libselinux.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libselinux.i686
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. libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.
We can use yum
to install libselinux.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libselinux.i686.
Install libselinux.i686 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.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libselinux.i686
How To Uninstall libselinux.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libselinux.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libselinux.i686
libselinux.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/libselinux.so.1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/libselinux.conf
/usr/sbin/sefcontext_compile
/var/run/setrans
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.