checkpolicy command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

checkpolicy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: checkpolicy: command not found

Solutions to checkpolicy: command not found

How To Fix checkpolicy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu checkpolicy is provided by checkpolicy package.

checkpolicy 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 checkpolicy, the SELinux policy compiler. Only required for building policies. It uses libsepol to generate the binary policy. checkpolicy uses the static libsepol since it deals with low level details of the policy that have not been encapsulated/abstracted by a proper shared library interface.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install checkpolicy

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install checkpolicy.

sudo apt -y install checkpolicy

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install checkpolicy

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix checkpolicy command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.