How To Install policycoreutils on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils
on Fedora 36.
What is policycoreutils
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security. policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole to switch roles.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install policycoreutils
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install policycoreutils.
Install policycoreutils on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install policycoreutils
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install policycoreutils on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install policycoreutils
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall policycoreutils on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the policycoreutils
package we can use the following command:
policycoreutils Package Contents on Fedora 36
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).