sepolgen-ifgen command not found

Introduction

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

sepolgen-ifgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sepolgen-ifgen: command not found

Solutions to sepolgen-ifgen: command not found

How To Fix sepolgen-ifgen: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sepolgen-ifgen is provided by policycoreutils-dev package.

policycoreutils-dev 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 management tools used to develop policy in an SELinux environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install policycoreutils-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install policycoreutils-dev.

sudo apt -y install policycoreutils-dev

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

sudo aptitude install policycoreutils-dev

Summary

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