How To Install secil2conf on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install secilc

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install secilc

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is secil2conf and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install secil2conf on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install secil2conf on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install secil2conf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install secilc

Install secil2conf on Fedora 34 using yum

Because secil2conf is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install secil2conf package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install secilc

How to upgrade (update) a single package secil2conf using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like secil2conf in this example you should use the following command:

yum update secilc

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade secilc

How to Upgrade secil2conf on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update secilc

How To remove secil2conf from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the secil2conf package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove secilc

Extra info and code examples

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. The SELinux CIL Compiler is a compiler that converts the CIL language as described on the CIL design wiki into a kernel binary policy file.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install secil2conf using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the secil2conf from Fedora 34.

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