How to Install and Uninstall newrole Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 17,2025

You can also install and uninstall the newrole on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "newrole" package

Please follow the steps below to install newrole on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "newrole" package

Learn how to uninstall newrole on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                newrole
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the newrole package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: newrole
Source: policycoreutils
Version: 3.4-1
Installed-Size: 116
Maintainer: Debian SELinux maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libcap2-bin, policycoreutils (= 3.4-1), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libselinux1 (>= 3.4)
Description: SELinux core policy utilities (newrole application for RBAC/MLS)
Description-md5: 2bc7c38448c1271bb1b11fcd9d04a91b
Homepage: https://selinuxproject.org
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/policycoreutils/newrole_3.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 46232
MD5sum: 8678bd1078c09a59bc826bdf03b071ea
SHA256: 0c84474afc2278c2fddc1ff253e10c14e1caaf82bba3a539a20188b2cb74c26b