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hello dear community,

how to install AppArmor on MX-Linux-System 19xy!?


i want to run this on MX-Linux. ; i have heard about AppArmor and that it is an application security tool designed to provide an easy-to-use security framework for your applications.


i have heard that, AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats, Well this i generally a good thing.
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even zero-day attacks, by enforcing good behaviour and preventing even unknown application flaws from being exploited. AppArmor has got a elaboratded security policies, called “profiles”,

To get some instights into all those advantages i now want to install AppArmor on my mX Linux and have all that great and full overview on AppArmor:


can i do this via the software package manager!?

Yes

Is it enough to install apparmor from the repo? Or is additional configuration necessary to get it up and running? The Debian wiki shows extra steps needed to enable apparmor, but I'm uncertain whether they're up to date or necessary on MX. After installing the apparmor package and rebooting without any additional steps, 'sudo apparmor_status' shows: So I'm assuming everything is up and running correctly, but I just want to be sure.

Thanks!

yep you are done. the debian kernels enable apparmor by default on buster and forward. the additional steps in the debian wiki still apply to older systems using debian kernels (stretch and earlier).