How To Install policycoreutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. policycoreutils.x86_64 is SELinux policy core utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `policycoreutils.x86_64`

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. policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles.

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

Install policycoreutils.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 policycoreutils.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install policycoreutils.x86_64

How To Uninstall policycoreutils.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the policycoreutils.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove policycoreutils.x86_64

policycoreutils.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sestatus.conf
/usr/bin/secon
/usr/libexec/selinux/hll
/usr/libexec/selinux/hll/pp
/usr/sbin/fixfiles
/usr/sbin/genhomedircon
/usr/sbin/load_policy
/usr/sbin/restorecon
/usr/sbin/semodule
/usr/sbin/sestatus
/usr/sbin/setfiles
/usr/sbin/setsebool
/usr/share/doc/policycoreutils
/usr/share/licenses/policycoreutils-2.5
/usr/share/licenses/policycoreutils-2.5/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ach/LC_MESSAGES/policycoreutils.mo
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/usr/share/man/man1/secon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/selinux_config.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sestatus.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fixfiles.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/genhomedircon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/load_policy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/restorecon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/semodule.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sestatus.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setfiles.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setsebool.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/secon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/fixfiles.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/load_policy.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/restorecon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/semodule.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/sestatus.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/setfiles.8.gz
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References

policycoreutils.x86_64 website

Summary

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