How To Install usbguard-selinux on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbguard-selinux on CentOS 8.
What is usbguard-selinux
The usbguard-selinux package contains selinux policy for the USBGuard daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install usbguard-selinux on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usbguard-selinux.
Install usbguard-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 usbguard-selinux using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install usbguard-selinux
Install usbguard-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 usbguard-selinux using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install usbguard-selinux
How To Uninstall usbguard-selinux on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the usbguard-selinux package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove usbguard-selinux
usbguard-selinux Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/selinux/devel/include/contrib/ipp-usbguard.if
/usr/share/selinux/packages/targeted/usbguard.pp.bz2
/var/lib/selinux/targeted/active/modules/200/usbguard
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install usbguard-selinux on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
