How To Install policycoreutils-python-utils on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-python-utils
on Kali Linux.
What is policycoreutils-python-utils
policycoreutils-python-utils 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 policycoreutils written in Python like semanage, audit2why, audit2allow or chcat.
There are three methods to install policycoreutils-python-utils
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-python-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-python-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install policycoreutils-python-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-python-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
Install policycoreutils-python-utils 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.
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-python-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall policycoreutils-python-utils on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-python-utils
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall policycoreutils-python-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-python-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove policycoreutils-python-utils Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-python-utils
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove policycoreutils-python-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-python-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
policycoreutils-python-utils have the following dependencies:
- policycoreutils
- python3-audit
- python3-selinux
- python3-semanage
- python3-sepolgen
- python3-sepolicy
- selinux-utils
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-python-utils
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.