How To Install policycoreutils-dbus on Kali Linux

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In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dbus on Kali Linux. policycoreutils-dbus is SELinux core policy utilities (D-Bus daemon)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dbus on Kali Linux.

What is policycoreutils-dbus

policycoreutils-dbus 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. 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 the org.selinux D-Bus daemon.

There are three methods to install policycoreutils-dbus on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install policycoreutils-dbus Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dbus using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-dbus

Install policycoreutils-dbus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dbus using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-dbus

Install policycoreutils-dbus Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install policycoreutils-dbus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install policycoreutils-dbus

How To Uninstall policycoreutils-dbus on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the policycoreutils-dbus package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove policycoreutils-dbus

Uninstall policycoreutils-dbus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall policycoreutils-dbus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove policycoreutils-dbus

Remove policycoreutils-dbus Configurations and Data

To remove policycoreutils-dbus configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge policycoreutils-dbus

Remove policycoreutils-dbus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove policycoreutils-dbus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policycoreutils-dbus

Dependencies

policycoreutils-dbus have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install policycoreutils-dbus package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.

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