selint command not found

Introduction

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

selint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: selint: command not found

Solutions to selint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu selint is provided by selint package.

selint is:

SELint is a program to perform static code analysis on SELinux policy source files.

It is designed for refpolicy style policies and supports the standard SELinux policy language (not CIL).

It performs various checks from incorrect filecontext definitions over missing or superfluous required entries in interfaces to violations of the refpolicy style guide. All categories can be either enabled or disabled via the command line or a configuration file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install selint

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

You can also use apt command to install selint.

sudo apt -y install selint

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

sudo aptitude install selint

Summary

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