How To Install libsepol.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol.i686
on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libsepol.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. libsepol provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by checkpolicy (the policy compiler) and similar tools, as well as by programs like load_policy that need to perform specific transformations on binary policies such as customizing policy boolean settings.
We can use yum
to install libsepol.i686
on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsepol.i686.
Install libsepol.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 libsepol.i686
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libsepol.i686
How To Uninstall libsepol.i686 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libsepol.i686
package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libsepol.i686
libsepol.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/lib/libsepol.so.1
/usr/share/licenses/libsepol-2.5
/usr/share/licenses/libsepol-2.5/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol.i686
on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.