How To Install libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is libsemanage.x86_64
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature 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. libsemanage provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by checkpolicy (the policy compiler) and similar tools, as well as by programs like load_policy that need to perform specific transformations on binary policies such as customizing policy boolean settings.
We can use yum to install libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libsemanage.x86_64.
Install libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install libsemanage.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libsemanage.x86_64
How To Uninstall libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the libsemanage.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove libsemanage.x86_64
libsemanage.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/selinux
/etc/selinux/semanage.conf
/etc/selinux/tmp
/usr/lib64/libsemanage.so.1
/usr/libexec/selinux
/usr/share/licenses/libsemanage-2.5
/usr/share/licenses/libsemanage-2.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/semanage.conf.5.gz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsemanage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.