How To Install checkpolicy on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy on Debian 9.
What is checkpolicy
checkpolicy is:
Security-enhanced Linux is a patch 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. It uses libsepol to generate the binary policy. checkpolicy uses the static libsepol since it deals with low level details of the policy that have not been encapsulated/abstracted by a proper shared library interface.
There are three methods to install checkpolicy on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install checkpolicy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install checkpolicy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install checkpolicy
Install checkpolicy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install checkpolicy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install checkpolicy
Install checkpolicy 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install checkpolicy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install checkpolicy
How To Uninstall checkpolicy on Debian 9
To uninstall only the checkpolicy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove checkpolicy
Uninstall checkpolicy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall checkpolicy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove checkpolicy
Remove checkpolicy Configurations and Data
To remove checkpolicy configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge checkpolicy
Remove checkpolicy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove checkpolicy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge checkpolicy
Dependencies
checkpolicy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkpolicy package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.