How To Install selint on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install selint on Kali Linux.

What is selint

selint is:

SELint is a program to perform static code analysis on SELinux policy source files.

It is designed for refpolicy style policies and supports the standard SELinux policy language (not CIL).

It performs various checks from incorrect filecontext definitions over missing or superfluous required entries in interfaces to violations of the refpolicy style guide. All categories can be either enabled or disabled via the command line or a configuration file.

There are three methods to install selint 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 selint Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install selint using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install selint

Install selint Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install selint using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install selint

Install selint 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install selint using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install selint

How To Uninstall selint on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the selint package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove selint

Uninstall selint And Its Dependencies

To uninstall selint and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove selint

Remove selint Configurations and Data

To remove selint configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge selint

Remove selint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove selint configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge selint

Dependencies

selint have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libconfuse2

References

• selint website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install selint package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.