How To Install selinux-policy-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install selinux-policy-doc
on Debian 9.
What is selinux-policy-doc
selinux-policy-doc is:
The SELinux Reference Policy (refpolicy) is a complete SELinux policy, as an alternative to the existing strict and targeted policies available from http://selinux.sf.net. The goal is to have this policy as the system policy, be and used as the basis for creating other policies. Refpolicy is based on the current strict and targeted policies, but aims to accomplish many additional goals:
- Strong Modularity
- Clearly stated security Goals
- Documentation
- Development Tool Support
- Forward Looking
- Configurability
- Flexible Base Policy
- Application Policy Variations
- Multi-Level Security
This package contains the documentation for the reference policy.
There are three methods to install selinux-policy-doc
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install selinux-policy-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install selinux-policy-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install selinux-policy-doc
Install selinux-policy-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install selinux-policy-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install selinux-policy-doc
Install selinux-policy-doc 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install selinux-policy-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install selinux-policy-doc
How To Uninstall selinux-policy-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the selinux-policy-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove selinux-policy-doc
Uninstall selinux-policy-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall selinux-policy-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove selinux-policy-doc
Remove selinux-policy-doc Configurations and Data
To remove selinux-policy-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge selinux-policy-doc
Remove selinux-policy-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove selinux-policy-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge selinux-policy-doc
Dependencies
selinux-policy-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install selinux-policy-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.