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

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

Introduction

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

What is `libsemanage-python.x86_64`

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

We can use yum to install libsemanage-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 libsemanage-python.x86_64.

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

sudo yum -y install libsemanage-python.x86_64

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

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

sudo yum remove libsemanage-python.x86_64

libsemanage-python.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_semanage.so
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/semanage.py
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/semanage.pyc
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/semanage.pyo
/usr/libexec/selinux/semanage_migrate_store

References

libsemanage-python.x86_64 website

Summary

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