How To Install selint on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install selint on Ubuntu.
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 Ubuntu. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu
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 Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove selint
Remove selint Configurations and Data
To remove selint configuration and data from Ubuntu 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:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install selint package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.