How to Install SEmanage on CentOS 8

SEmanage is a command-line utility and provide ability to manage SELinux contexts. Its needs separate installation by default this package is not available in CentOS 8 minimal installations.

 

This article describes How to Install SEmanage on CentOS 8 System. 

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# semanage -h -bash: semanage: command not found [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

As per the above output, the package is not installed on the system which provides semanage command. Follow the below steps to resolve: 

 

Step 1. Search the Package: Run the following command to search the correct package name for SEmanage command: 

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# dnf provides semanage Last metadata expiration check: 0:17:39 ago on Tue 11 Jan 2022 05:41:37 AM EST. policycoreutils-python-utils-2.9-16.el8.noarch : SELinux policy core python                                                : utilities Repo        : @System Matched from: Filename    : /usr/sbin/semanage   policycoreutils-python-utils-2.9-16.el8.noarch : SELinux policy core python                                                : utilities Repo        : baseos Matched from: Filename    : /usr/sbin/semanage   [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

In the above output the “policycoreutils-python-utils” package provides SEmanage command. 

 

Step 2. Package Installation: Run the following command to install require package:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# dnf install policycoreutils-python-utils -y …………………….. Installed:   checkpolicy-2.9-1.el8.x86_64   policycoreutils-python-utils-2.9-16.el8.noarch ……………………..   Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 3. Validate the Installation: Run the following command to validate the installation:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# semanage -h usage: semanage [-h]                 ………….   optional arguments:   -h, --help            show this help message and exit [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Done!!! SEmanage installation is done and now “semanage” command is available on CentOS 8 system.