I had selinux running on a system about a week ago, but did a fresh install of ubuntu 8.10 today, and am having problems getting it enabled. My last attempt was as follows (from a near-vanilla install): apt-get autoremove apparmor apt-get install selinux-policy-default (also tried sudo apt-get install selinux-basics selinux-utils checkpolicy policycoreutils) added selinux=1 to /boot/grub/menu.lst update-grub apt-get install sysvinit (tried both ways, with and without) the /etc/selinux/config file has 'permissive' set I have tried the above in a few different orders, and changed a package here and there, but still not much luck.  After a reboot, sestatus still returns disabled. Could someone please provide an accurate step-by-step for ubuntu 8.10 for what exactly is or is not needed from the above steps, and where I have gone wrong? Thank you