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Re: clamav installation question

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: clamav installation question
Date 2021-02-25 21:50 +0100
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Semih Ozlem wrote: 
> When I try to install clamav I am getting errots
> When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site
> instruction
> 
> (i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository
> (ii) freshclam gives the error
> "!checkdbdir: Can't ope directory /var/lib/clamav/"
> (iii) I can't be sure if it is running or not. systemctl status
> clamav-daemon.service states it to be inactive.
> 
> when I try to follow the instructions on clamav's site
> 
> check-devel package is a requirement but is unavailable in debian
> repository.

You just need to install:

clamav  
clamav-base 
clamav-freshclam
libclamav9

and doing

sudo apt install clamav

will bring in clamav-freshclam, which will bring in clamav-base
and libclamav9.

You don't need clamv-data, because clamav-freshclam will update
the data for you.

-dsr-

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clamav installation question Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 21:20 +0100
  Re: clamav installation question Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-25 21:50 +0100
  Re: clamav installation question Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-02-25 22:40 +0100
    Re: clamav installation question Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 07:00 +0100
      Re: clamav installation question Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-02-26 08:00 +0100
        Re: clamav installation question Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 08:20 +0100
          Re: clamav installation question Semih Ozlem <semihozlemlinuxuser@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 08:30 +0100
            Re: clamav installation question Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2021-02-26 17:00 +0100
      Re: clamav installation question john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-02-26 08:00 +0100

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