How To Install setools 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 setools on Ubuntu.
What is setools
setools is:
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. These are Tools for analysing security policy on SELinux systems.
This package contains the following CLI tools:
- sechecker: automated SELinux policy analysis tool
- sediff: SELinux policy difference tool
- sedta: domain transition analysis for SELinux policies
- seinfo: SELinux policy information tool
- seinfoflow: information flow analysis for SELinux policies
- sesearch: SELinux policy query tool
There are three methods to install setools 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 setools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install setools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install setools
Install setools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install setools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install setools
Install setools 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 setools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install setools
How To Uninstall setools on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the setools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove setools
Uninstall setools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall setools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove setools
Remove setools Configurations and Data
To remove setools configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge setools
Remove setools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove setools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge setools
Dependencies
setools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install setools package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.