How To Install policycoreutils-dbus on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dbus
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is policycoreutils-dbus
policycoreutils-dbus is:
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.
This package contains the org.selinux D-Bus daemon.
There are three methods to install policycoreutils-dbus
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 policycoreutils-dbus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dbus
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-dbus
Install policycoreutils-dbus Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dbus
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-dbus
Install policycoreutils-dbus 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 policycoreutils-dbus
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-dbus
How To Uninstall policycoreutils-dbus on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-dbus
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-dbus
Uninstall policycoreutils-dbus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-dbus
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-dbus
Remove policycoreutils-dbus Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-dbus
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-dbus
Remove policycoreutils-dbus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-dbus
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils-dbus
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dbus
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.