Information about the package, mcstrans, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mcstrans package is designed for, SELinux Translation Daemon.
Package Name:
mcstrans
Summary:
SELinux Translation Daemon
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. mcstrans provides an translation daemon to translate SELinux categories from internal representations to user defined representation.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.3.1
Release:
4.el6
Size:
85 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the mcstrans package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mcstrans
This command will install mcstrans on the server.
yum remove mcstrans
This command will un-install mcstrans on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mcstrans, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mcstrans
This command will un-install mcstrans 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 mcstrans when using the -y flag.
yum update mcstrans
This command will update mcstrans to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mcstrans, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mcstrans
This command will update mcstrans 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 mcstrans when using the -y flag.
yum info mcstrans
This command will show you core information about the mcstrans package.
yum deplist mcstrans
This command will show you the dependencies for mcstrans. 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 mcstrans
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mcstrans. 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.