How To Install fapolicyd-selinux on CentOS 8

fapolicyd-selinux is Fapolicyd selinux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fapolicyd-selinux on CentOS 8.

What is fapolicyd-selinux

The fapolicyd-selinux package contains selinux policy for the fapolicyd daemon.

We can use yum or dnf to install fapolicyd-selinux on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fapolicyd-selinux.

Install fapolicyd-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 fapolicyd-selinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fapolicyd-selinux

Install fapolicyd-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 fapolicyd-selinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fapolicyd-selinux

How To Uninstall fapolicyd-selinux on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fapolicyd-selinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fapolicyd-selinux

fapolicyd-selinux Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/selinux/devel/include/contrib/ipp-fapolicyd.if
/usr/share/selinux/packages/targeted/fapolicyd.pp.bz2
/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/200/fapolicyd

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fapolicyd-selinux on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.