How To Install libselinux1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux1-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libselinux1-dev
libselinux1-dev is:
This package provides the static libraries and header files needed for developing SELinux applications. 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.
There are three methods to install libselinux1-dev
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 libselinux1-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libselinux1-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libselinux1-dev
Install libselinux1-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libselinux1-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libselinux1-dev
Install libselinux1-dev 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 libselinux1-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libselinux1-dev
How To Uninstall libselinux1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libselinux1-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libselinux1-dev
Uninstall libselinux1-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libselinux1-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libselinux1-dev
Remove libselinux1-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libselinux1-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libselinux1-dev
Remove libselinux1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libselinux1-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libselinux1-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libselinux1-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.