KEA for Linux remote installation fails: Installation error Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package epagent [Kaspersky Endpoint Agent for Linux]

[Antipova Anna]

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Problem

Some users may face a rather unclear and not self-explanatory error when attempting to remotely install KEA for Linux:

Remote installation has been completed with an error on this device: Installation error Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package epagent   Error: Transaction failed

Solution

This error is specific to RHEL-based distributives which have SELinux. KEA for Linux does not support Enforcing SELinux mode, and thus requires SELinux to be either disabled, or set to Permissive mode.

To set SELinux to permissive mode for current session(until reboot):

setenforce Permissive

To disable SELinux, in file /etc/selinux/config set

SELINUX=disabled