How to Install hardening-includes software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install hardening-includes software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

hardening-includes software package provides Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install hardening-includes 

hardening-includes is installed in your system.

Make ensure the hardening-includes package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hardening-includes *

You will get with hardening-includes package name, version, architecture and description in a table

hardening-includes package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Development
Package hardening-includes
Version 2.5ubuntu2.1
Description Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening
Sub Section devel


See Also, How to uninstall or remove hardening-includes software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?