How To Install clamd on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is clamd
The Clam AntiVirus Daemon See the README file how this can be done with a minimum of effort. This package contains a generic system wide clamd service which is e.g. used by the clamav-milter package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install clamd
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamd.
Install clamd 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 clamd
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamd
Install clamd 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 clamd
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamd
How To Uninstall clamd on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the clamd
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamd
clamd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/run/clamd.scan
/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/3c594f0d8f15e1ad03a84555c4e183ba40be40
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/clamd.scan.conf
/usr/sbin/clamd
/usr/share/doc/clamd
/usr/share/doc/clamd/README
/usr/share/doc/clamd/clamd.conf
/usr/share/doc/clamd/clamd.logrotate
/usr/share/man/man5/clamd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/clamd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.