Linux client dependencies and requirements

Products

• Endpoint Protection

Issue/Introduction

Dark network clients need a complete list of dependencies since they do not have external repo access

Environment

Release : 14.3 RU3 +

 

Resolution

Core System Packages:
upstart             "An event-driven init system." (Before RHEL/CentOS 7)
bash                "The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash)."
sed                 "A GNU stream text editor."
gzip                "The GNU data compression program."
tar                 "The GNU file archiving program."
gawk                "The GNU version of the awk text processing utility."
grep                "The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities."
findutils           "The GNU versions of find utilities (find and xargs)."
coreutils           "The GNU core utilities -- a set of commonly used utility applications."
module-init-tools   "Kernel module management utilities." (Before RHEL/CentOS 7)
util-linux-ng       "A collection of basic system utilities." (Before RHEL/CentOS 7)
filesystem          "The basic directory layout for a Linux system."
shadow-utils        "Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files."
zip                 "A file compression and packaging utility compatible with PKZIP."

Dependent Libraries:
openssl             "The OpenSSL toolkit (x86_64)."
glibc               "The GNU libc libraries (x86_64)."
libstdc++           "The GNU Standard C++ Library v4 (x86_64)."
libgcc              "GCC version 4.0 shared support library (x86_64)."
pam                 "PAM Authentication Libraries (64bit libpam.so)."
zlib                "A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library (x86_64)."
libacl              "Utilities to administer Access Control Lists (x86_64)."
at                  "Job spooling tools"

SE Linux will require these additional dependencies:
checkpolicy:                      "SELinux policy compiler"
policycoreutils-python       "SELinux policy core python utilities"