How To Install secilc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install secilc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is secilc
secilc 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.
The SELinux CIL Compiler is a compiler that converts the CIL language as described on the CIL design wiki into a kernel binary policy file.
There are three methods to install secilc 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 secilc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install secilc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install secilc
Install secilc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install secilc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install secilc
Install secilc 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 secilc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install secilc
How To Uninstall secilc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the secilc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove secilc
Uninstall secilc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall secilc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove secilc
Remove secilc Configurations and Data
To remove secilc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge secilc
Remove secilc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove secilc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge secilc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install secilc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
