How To Install apparmor-profiles on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apparmor-profiles on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is apparmor-profiles
apparmor-profiles is:
apparmor-profiles provides various experimental AppArmor profiles. Do not expect these profiles to work out-of-the-box.
These profiles are not mature enough to be shipped in enforce mode by default on Debian. They are shipped in complain mode so that users can test them, choose which are desired, and help improve them upstream if needed.
Some even more experimental profiles are included in /usr/share/doc/apparmor-profiles/extras/.
Package: apparmor-profiles Architecture: all Version: 2.13.3-7ubuntu5 Priority: extra Section: admin Source: apparmor Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian AppArmor Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 350 Depends: apparmor (>= 2.8.96~2535-0ubuntu1~) Filename: pool/main/a/apparmor/apparmor-profiles_2.13.3-7ubuntu5_all.deb Size: 32716 MD5sum: 4d6bbe1e8a420c49aae0b43106a7b554 SHA1: 522497c9044be223a94ff9df7a81042160ac1ca5 SHA256: 64f26a34e6efcb89e6bb7b5ccc121236a0cdb8dfac18dd8d2be6b1c92c8160b0 Homepage: http://apparmor.net/ Description-en: experimental profiles for AppArmor security policies apparmor-profiles provides various experimental AppArmor profiles. Do not expect these profiles to work out-of-the-box.
These profiles are not mature enough to be shipped in enforce mode by default on Debian. They are shipped in complain mode so that users can test them, choose which are desired, and help improve them upstream if needed.
Some even more experimental profiles are included in /usr/share/doc/apparmor-profiles/extras/.
There are three methods to install apparmor-profiles on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apparmor-profiles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apparmor-profiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apparmor-profiles
Install apparmor-profiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apparmor-profiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apparmor-profiles
Install apparmor-profiles Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install apparmor-profiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apparmor-profiles
How To Uninstall apparmor-profiles on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the apparmor-profiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apparmor-profiles
Uninstall apparmor-profiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apparmor-profiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apparmor-profiles
Remove apparmor-profiles Configurations and Data
To remove apparmor-profiles configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apparmor-profiles
Remove apparmor-profiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apparmor-profiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apparmor-profiles
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apparmor-profiles package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
