How To Install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8. nagios-selinux is SELinux context for nagios

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nagios-selinux

SElinux context for nagios.

We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-selinux.

Install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-selinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-selinux

Install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-selinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-selinux

How To Uninstall nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nagios-selinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nagios-selinux

nagios-selinux Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/nagios-selinux
/usr/share/doc/nagios-selinux/README.SELinux.rst
/usr/share/selinux/packages/nagios/nagios_epel.pp

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-selinux on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.