How To Install selinux-utils on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install selinux-utils on Kali Linux.

What is selinux-utils

selinux-utils is:

This package provides various utility programs for a Security-enhanced Linux system. 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. This package provides utility programs to get and set process and file security contexts and to obtain security policy decisions.

There are three methods to install selinux-utils 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 selinux-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install selinux-utils

Install selinux-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install selinux-utils

Install selinux-utils 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 selinux-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install selinux-utils

How To Uninstall selinux-utils on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the selinux-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove selinux-utils

Uninstall selinux-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove selinux-utils

Remove selinux-utils Configurations and Data

To remove selinux-utils configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge selinux-utils

Remove selinux-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge selinux-utils

Dependencies

selinux-utils have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libpcre2-8-0
• libselinux1
• libsepol1

References

• selinux-utils website

Summary

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