How To Install libsepol-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol-static.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. libsepol-static.x86_64 is static libraries used to build policy manipulation tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libsepol-static.x86_64`

The libsepol-static package contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing applications that manipulate binary policies.

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

Install libsepol-static.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 libsepol-static.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libsepol-static.x86_64

How To Uninstall libsepol-static.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libsepol-static.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libsepol-static.x86_64

libsepol-static.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/libsepol.a

References

libsepol-static.x86_64 website

Summary

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