How To Install secilc on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install secilc on Fedora 34.
What is secilc
The SELinux CIL Compiler is a compiler that converts the CIL language as described on the CIL design wiki into a kernel binary policy file. Please see the CIL Design Wiki at http for more information about the goals and features on the CIL language.
We can use yum or dnf to install secilc on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install secilc.
Install secilc on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install secilc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install secilc
Install secilc on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install secilc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install secilc
How To Uninstall secilc on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the secilc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove secilc
secilc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/secil2conf
/usr/bin/secilc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/cd458291d60b64a728765c4c249ae9c78f11b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/515cb36ca0f51ac9662bbf3c51c75f6d6d4a26
/usr/share/licenses/secilc
/usr/share/licenses/secilc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/secil2conf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/secilc.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install secilc on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.