How To Install policycoreutils-gui on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-gui on Kali Linux.
What is policycoreutils-gui
policycoreutils-gui 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 system-config-selinux and the selinux-polgengui utilities.
There are three methods to install policycoreutils-gui 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-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-guiInstall policycoreutils-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-guiInstall policycoreutils-gui 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-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-guiHow To Uninstall policycoreutils-gui on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-guiUninstall policycoreutils-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-guiRemove policycoreutils-gui Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-gui configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-guiRemove policycoreutils-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils-guiDependencies
policycoreutils-gui have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-gtk-3.0
- policycoreutils
- policycoreutils-dbus
- policycoreutils-dev
- policykit-1
- python3-dbus
- python3-gi
- python3-selinux
- python3-sepolicy
- python3-slip-dbus
- python3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-gui package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
