How To Install policycoreutils-dev on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dev
on Debian 12.
What is policycoreutils-dev
policycoreutils-dev 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 management tools used to develop policy in an SELinux environment.
There are three methods to install policycoreutils-dev
on Debian 12. 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-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 policycoreutils-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-dev
Install policycoreutils-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-dev
Install policycoreutils-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-dev
How To Uninstall policycoreutils-dev on Debian 12
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-dev
Uninstall policycoreutils-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-dev
Remove policycoreutils-dev Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-dev
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-dev
Remove policycoreutils-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils-dev
Dependencies
policycoreutils-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dev
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.