How To Install python3-selinux on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-selinux on Kali Linux.
What is python3-selinux
python3-selinux is:
This package provides the Python3 bindings needed for developing Python SELinux applications.
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.
There are three methods to install python3-selinux 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 python3-selinux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install python3-selinux using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-selinuxInstall python3-selinux Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install python3-selinux using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-selinuxInstall python3-selinux 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 python3-selinux using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-selinuxHow To Uninstall python3-selinux on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the python3-selinux package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-selinuxUninstall python3-selinux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-selinux and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-selinuxRemove python3-selinux Configurations and Data
To remove python3-selinux configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-selinuxRemove python3-selinux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-selinux configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-selinuxDependencies
python3-selinux have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-selinux package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.