How To Install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7.

What is pure-ftpd-selinux

This package adds SELinux enforcement to Pure-FTPD. Install it if you want Pure-FTPd to be protected in the same way other FTP servers are in Fedora (e.g. VSFTPd and ProFTPd)

We can use yum or dnf to install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pure-ftpd-selinux.

Install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install pure-ftpd-selinux using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pure-ftpd-selinux

Install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install pure-ftpd-selinux using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pure-ftpd-selinux

How To Uninstall pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the pure-ftpd-selinux package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pure-ftpd-selinux

References

• pure-ftpd-selinux website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pure-ftpd-selinux on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.