How To Install libselinux on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux
on CentOS 7.
What is libselinux
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. libselinux provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions. Required for any applications that use the SELinux API.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libselinux
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libselinux.
Install libselinux on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libselinux
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libselinux 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.
After updating yum database, We can install libselinux
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libselinux on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libselinux
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.