How to resolve -bash: semanage: command not found on CentOS 8

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

 

This article describes How to resolve -bash: semanage: command not found 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. Installing package: Run the following command to install semanage related packages:

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# dnf install policycoreutils-python-utils –y …………………….. Installed:   checkpolicy-2.9-1.el8.x86_64                   policycoreutils-python-utils-2.9-16.el8.noarch           python3-audit-3.0-0.17.20191104git1c2f876.el8.x86_64   python3-libsemanage-2.9-6.el8.x86_64           python3-policycoreutils-2.9-16.el8.noarch                python3-setools-4.3.0-2.el8.x86_64   Complete! [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Step 2. Verification: Run the following command to validate/verify the installation.

 

[root@linuxcnf ~]# semanage -h usage: semanage [-h] ……………………..     boolean             Manage booleans to selectively enable functionality     permissive          Manage process type enforcement mode     dontaudit           Disable/Enable dontaudit rules in policy   optional arguments:   -h, --help            show this help message and exit [root@linuxcnf ~]#

 

Done!!! Now the command “semanage” is available on CentOS 8 system.