How To Install clamav on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav on Rocky Linux 8. clamav is End-user tools for the Clam Antivirus scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav on Rocky Linux 8.

What is clamav

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. The virus database is based on the virus database from OpenAntiVirus, but contains additional signatures (including signatures for popular polymorphic viruses, too) and is KEPT UP TO DATE.

We can use yum or dnf to install clamav on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamav.

Install clamav on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install clamav using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clamav

Install clamav on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install clamav using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clamav

How To Uninstall clamav on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the clamav package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove clamav

clamav Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/clambc
/usr/bin/clamconf
/usr/bin/clamdscan
/usr/bin/clamdtop
/usr/bin/clamscan
/usr/bin/clamsubmit
/usr/bin/sigtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/c436c628ccf266fbf20f33c619bcf819522dfb
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/060a5212faf3db3c759b41a3c998c502d6214f
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/2147b1421fffa8c8c64a8fee00294aa497a38d
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/8d6460b2f44d48dcf1cf1962b6a60b7c5bc835
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/960f0fc1c0bb2c40374eeec1b113c64900d359
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/826d376c5e7d34b2f5d33e2489bf21cf42dc2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/f141e0c1c9900476f8fa0863503a299d97181f
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/19bfcbaa2802461ba915672dbf4c6c24f6812b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-clamonacc.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamonacc.service
/usr/sbin/clamonacc
/usr/share/doc/clamav
/usr/share/doc/clamav/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/clamav/README.md
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Contribute.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Unix
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Unix.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Unix/Steps-Debian-Ubuntu.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Unix/Steps-Redhat-CentOS.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Unix/Steps-macOS.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Installation-Windows.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Introduction.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/OnAccess.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/AllowLists.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/AuthenticodeRules.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/BodySignatureFormat.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/BytecodeSignatures.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/ContainerMetadata.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/DatabaseInfo.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/DynamicConfig.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/EncryptedArchives.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/ExtendedSignatures.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/FileTypeMagic.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/FileTypes.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/FunctionalityLevels.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/HashSignatures.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/LogicalSignatures.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/PhishSigs.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Signatures/YaraRules.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Usage
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Usage.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Usage/Configuration.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Usage/Scanning.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/Usage/SignatureManagement.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/development.html
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/images
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/images/demon.png
/usr/share/doc/clamav/html/UserManual/libclamav.html
/usr/share/licenses/clamav
/usr/share/licenses/clamav/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/clambc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clamconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clamdscan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clamdtop.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clamscan.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clamsubmit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sigtool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/clamav-milter.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/clamonacc.8.gz
/var/spool/quarantine

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.