How To Install policycoreutils on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils on Kali Linux. policycoreutils is SELinux core policy utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils on Kali Linux.

What is policycoreutils

policycoreutils 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 core policy utilities that are required for basic operation of an SELinux system. These utilities include load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems.

There are three methods to install policycoreutils 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils

Install policycoreutils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install policycoreutils

Install policycoreutils 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils

How To Uninstall policycoreutils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the policycoreutils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils

Uninstall policycoreutils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall policycoreutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils

Remove policycoreutils Configurations and Data

To remove policycoreutils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils

Remove policycoreutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils

Dependencies

policycoreutils have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.