How To Install libselinux.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libselinux.i686 is SELinux library and simple utilities

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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.