How To Install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8.
What is dist-git-selinux
Dist Git is a remote Git repository specifically designed to hold RPM package sources. This package includes SELinux support.
We can use yum or dnf to install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dist-git-selinux.
Install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dist-git-selinux using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dist-git-selinux
Install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dist-git-selinux using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dist-git-selinux
How To Uninstall dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dist-git-selinux package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dist-git-selinux
dist-git-selinux Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dist-git-gc
/usr/bin/mkbranch
/usr/bin/mkbranch_branching
/usr/bin/remove_unused_sources
/usr/bin/setup_git_package
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux/dist_git.fc
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux/dist_git.if
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux/dist_git.pp.mls
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux/dist_git.pp.targeted
/usr/share/doc/dist-git-selinux/dist_git.te
/usr/share/selinux/mls/dist_git.pp
/usr/share/selinux/targeted/dist_git.pp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dist-git-selinux on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.