How To Install checkpolicy on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy on CentOS 7.
What is checkpolicy
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. This package contains checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler. Only required for building policies.
We can use yum or dnf to install checkpolicy on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install checkpolicy.
Install checkpolicy on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install checkpolicy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install checkpolicy
Install checkpolicy on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install checkpolicy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install checkpolicy
How To Uninstall checkpolicy on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the checkpolicy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove checkpolicy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
