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libsemanage


Information about the package, libsemanage, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libsemanage package is designed for, SELinux binary policy manipulation library.


Package Name:

libsemanage

Summary:

SELinux binary policy manipulation library

Description:

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.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.0.43

Release:

5.1.el6

Size:

199 k

Repository:

installed

From Repository:

base

Licence:

LGPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for libsemanage


Control the libsemanage package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install libsemanage

This command will install libsemanage on the server.

yum remove libsemanage

This command will un-install libsemanage on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsemanage, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove libsemanage

This command will un-install libsemanage on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libsemanage when using the -y flag.

yum update libsemanage

This command will update libsemanage to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libsemanage, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update libsemanage

This command will update libsemanage to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libsemanage when using the -y flag.

yum info libsemanage

This command will show you core information about the libsemanage package.

yum deplist libsemanage

This command will show you the dependencies for libsemanage. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update libsemanage

This command will check if there is an update waiting on libsemanage. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.