How To Install mcstrans on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcstrans
on CentOS 7.
What is mcstrans
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. mcstrans provides an translation daemon to translate SELinux categories from internal representations to user defined representation.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mcstrans
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mcstrans.
Install mcstrans on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mcstrans
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mcstrans 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 mcstrans
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mcstrans on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mcstrans
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mcstrans
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.