How To Install firejail-profiles on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install firejail-profiles on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is firejail-profiles
firejail-profiles is:
Firejail is a SUID security sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. It allows a process and all its descendants to have their own private view of the globally shared kernel resources, such as the network stack, process table, mount table.
This package contains firejail profiles for various applications.
There are three methods to install firejail-profiles on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install firejail-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 firejail-profiles using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install firejail-profiles
Install firejail-profiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install firejail-profiles using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install firejail-profiles
Install firejail-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 firejail-profiles using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install firejail-profiles
How To Uninstall firejail-profiles on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the firejail-profiles package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove firejail-profiles
Uninstall firejail-profiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall firejail-profiles and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove firejail-profiles
Remove firejail-profiles Configurations and Data
To remove firejail-profiles configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge firejail-profiles
Remove firejail-profiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove firejail-profiles configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge firejail-profiles
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install firejail-profiles package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
