How To Install setroubleshoot-server on CentOS 8

setroubleshoot-server is SELinux troubleshoot server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install setroubleshoot-server on CentOS 8.

What is `setroubleshoot-server`

Provides tools to help diagnose SELinux problems. When AVC messages are generated an alert can be generated that will give information about the problem and help track its resolution. Alerts can be configured to user preference. The same tools can be run on existing log files.

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

Install setroubleshoot-server 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 setroubleshoot-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install setroubleshoot-server

Install setroubleshoot-server 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 setroubleshoot-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install setroubleshoot-server

How To Uninstall setroubleshoot-server on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the setroubleshoot-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove setroubleshoot-server

setroubleshoot-server Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/audit/plugins.d/sedispatch.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.fedoraproject.SetroubleshootFixit.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.fedoraproject.SetroubleshootPrivileged.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.fedoraproject.Setroubleshootd.conf
/etc/setroubleshoot
/etc/setroubleshoot/setroubleshoot.conf
/run/setroubleshoot
/usr/bin/sealert
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/cf/f9f7a09862a961473e7f810ee72899423a85d9
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot-1.1-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/Plugin.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/Plugin.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/Plugin.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/access_control.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/access_control.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/analyze.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/analyze.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/audit_data.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/audit_data.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/avc_audit.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/avc_audit.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/email_alert.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/email_alert.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/errcode.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/errcode.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/html_util.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/html_util.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/rpc.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/rpc.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/rpc_interfaces.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/rpc_interfaces.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/server.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/server.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/serverconnection.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/serverconnection.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/signature.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/signature.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/util.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/uuid.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/uuid.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/xml_serialize.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/__pycache__/xml_serialize.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/access_control.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/analyze.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/audit_data.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/avc_audit.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/email_alert.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/errcode.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/html_util.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/rpc.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/rpc_interfaces.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/server.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/serverconnection.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/signature.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/uuid.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/setroubleshoot/xml_serialize.py
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/setroubleshoot.conf
/usr/sbin/sedispatch
/usr/sbin/setroubleshootd
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.fedoraproject.SetroubleshootFixit.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.fedoraproject.SetroubleshootPrivileged.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.fedoraproject.Setroubleshootd.service
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/DBUS.md
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/README
/usr/share/doc/setroubleshoot-server/TODO
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/aln/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ang/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bal/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bo/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/brx/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ilo/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/io/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/kg/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ks/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ky/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/lg/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/li/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
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/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/mi/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
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/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
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/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/setroubleshoot.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/seapplet.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sealert.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sedispatch.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setroubleshootd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.fedoraproject.setroubleshootfixit.policy
/usr/share/setroubleshoot
/usr/share/setroubleshoot/SetroubleshootFixit.py
/usr/share/setroubleshoot/SetroubleshootPrivileged.py
/var/lib/setroubleshoot
/var/lib/setroubleshoot/email_alert_recipients
/var/lib/setroubleshoot/setroubleshoot_database.xml

References

setroubleshoot-server website

Summary

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