How To Install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 is SELinux restorecond utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64

The policycoreutils-restorecond package contains the restorecond service.

We can use yum to install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64.

Install policycoreutils-restorecond.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 policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64

How To Uninstall policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64

policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/selinux/restorecond.conf
/etc/selinux/restorecond_user.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/restorecond.desktop
/usr/lib/systemd/system/restorecond.service
/usr/sbin/restorecond
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.selinux.Restorecond.service
/usr/share/licenses/policycoreutils-restorecond-2.5
/usr/share/licenses/policycoreutils-restorecond-2.5/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/restorecond.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man8/restorecond.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-restorecond.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.