How To Install policycoreutils-sandbox on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-sandbox
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is policycoreutils-sandbox
policycoreutils-sandbox 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 scripts to create graphical sandboxes.
This package requires an additional custom policy that is not present in Debian.
There are three methods to install policycoreutils-sandbox
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-sandbox 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-sandbox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-sandbox
Install policycoreutils-sandbox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-sandbox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-sandbox
Install policycoreutils-sandbox 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-sandbox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-sandbox
How To Uninstall policycoreutils-sandbox on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the policycoreutils-sandbox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-sandbox
Uninstall policycoreutils-sandbox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall policycoreutils-sandbox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-sandbox
Remove policycoreutils-sandbox Configurations and Data
To remove policycoreutils-sandbox
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-sandbox
Remove policycoreutils-sandbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-sandbox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils-sandbox
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-sandbox
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.