Information about the package, checkpolicy, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The checkpolicy package is designed for, SELinux policy compiler.
Package Name:
checkpolicy
Summary:
SELinux policy compiler
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. This package contains checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler. Only required for building policies.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.22
Release:
1.el6
Size:
850 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
anaconda-CentOS-201303020151.x86_64
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the checkpolicy package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install checkpolicy
This command will install checkpolicy on the server.
yum remove checkpolicy
This command will un-install checkpolicy on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove checkpolicy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove checkpolicy
This command will un-install checkpolicy 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 checkpolicy when using the -y flag.
yum update checkpolicy
This command will update checkpolicy to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove checkpolicy, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update checkpolicy
This command will update checkpolicy 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 checkpolicy when using the -y flag.
yum info checkpolicy
This command will show you core information about the checkpolicy package.
yum deplist checkpolicy
This command will show you the dependencies for checkpolicy. 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 checkpolicy
This command will check if there is an update waiting on checkpolicy. 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.