How To Install policycoreutils-dev on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dev on Kali Linux.
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 Kali Linux. 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-devInstall policycoreutils-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-devInstall policycoreutils-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-devHow To Uninstall policycoreutils-dev on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-devUninstall policycoreutils-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-devRemove policycoreutils-dev Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-devRemove 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-devDependencies
policycoreutils-dev have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
