Curious why you tried to get it approved in the first place if it comes with Linux?

Many larger corporations strictly control what software is available and allowed to be installed.

On Linux, this is commonly accomplished using Red Hat Satellite [1], although many other tools are also available to use instead.

Getting approval to install something like Vim can literally take months of effort and arguing.

[1] https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_satellite/6...

I worked at a place like this and we had a software registry, where if you had installed something and it wasn't on the registry somebody would start sending you nasty emails. This kind of thing would happen all the time: maybe the Linux machines weren't in the scans, or anything that came with the OS was whitelisted.

But if you wanted to install it separately on a computer that didn't have it already, then you'd need to get it “approved.”