How To Install libsepol on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol
on CentOS 7.
What is libsepol
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. libsepol provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by checkpolicy (the policy compiler) and similar tools, as well as by programs like load_policy that need to perform specific transformations on binary policies such as customizing policy boolean settings.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libsepol
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsepol.
Install libsepol on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libsepol
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libsepol 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 libsepol
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libsepol on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libsepol
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsepol
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.