How To Install restorecond on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install restorecond on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is restorecond
restorecond 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 restorecond to restore contexts of files that often get the wrong context.
There are three methods to install restorecond on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install restorecond Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install restorecond using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install restorecond
Install restorecond Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install restorecond using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install restorecond
Install restorecond 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 restorecond using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install restorecond
How To Uninstall restorecond on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the restorecond package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove restorecond
Uninstall restorecond And Its Dependencies
To uninstall restorecond and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove restorecond
Remove restorecond Configurations and Data
To remove restorecond configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge restorecond
Remove restorecond configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove restorecond configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge restorecond
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install restorecond package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
