How To Install libsemanage-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsemanage-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libsemanage-dev
libsemanage-dev is:
This package provides an API for the management of SELinux policies. It contains the static libraries and header files needed for developing applications that manage SELinux policies.
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 libsemanage-dev
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsemanage-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 libsemanage-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsemanage-dev
Install libsemanage-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsemanage-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsemanage-dev
Install libsemanage-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 libsemanage-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsemanage-dev
How To Uninstall libsemanage-dev on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libsemanage-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsemanage-dev
Uninstall libsemanage-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsemanage-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsemanage-dev
Remove libsemanage-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libsemanage-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsemanage-dev
Remove libsemanage-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsemanage-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsemanage-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsemanage-dev
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.