How to install libseccomp on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux & RHEL

Enhanced seccomp library

License: LGPL-2.1-only https://github.com/seccomp/libseccomp

Availability

Distro	aarch64	noarch	x86_64	Version
RHEL 10	—	—	—
RHEL 9	—	—	—
RHEL 8	—	—	—
RHEL 7	—	—	✓	2.6.1
RHEL 6	—	—	—

Description

The libseccomp library provides an easy to use, platform independent, interface to the Linux Kernel's syscall filtering mechanism. The libseccomp API is designed to abstract away the underlying BPF based syscall filter language and present a more conventional function-call based filtering interface. This backport of libseccomp 2.5.x to EL7 adds knowledge of post-Linux-5.6 syscalls (most importantly openat2, used by modern glibc tar) so that the default Docker seccomp profile no longer returns ENOSYS for fc44+ containers.

Compatible with all RHEL-based distributions, including CentOS, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.

Install

libseccomp on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

sudo yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
sudo yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
sudo yum -y install libseccomp

Frequently asked questions

How do I install libseccomp on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux or RHEL?

Add the GetPageSpeed repository, then run: sudo dnf -y install libseccomp (use yum on EL7). The same package works on AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS Stream and RHEL.

Which Enterprise Linux versions is libseccomp available for?

libseccomp is available for RHEL 7 and the matching AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux releases.

Is libseccomp compatible with Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream?

Yes. The RPM is built for Enterprise Linux and is binary-compatible across all RHEL rebuilds of the same major version, including AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream.