How To Install clamav-milter on CentOS 8

clamav-milter is Milter module for the Clam Antivirus scanner

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-milter on CentOS 8.

What is clamav-milter

This package contains files which are needed to run the clamav-milter.

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

Install clamav-milter on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install clamav-milter

Install clamav-milter on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install clamav-milter

How To Uninstall clamav-milter on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove clamav-milter

clamav-milter Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/mail
/etc/mail/clamav-milter.conf
/run/clamav-milter
/run/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.socket
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/df70a3d44d0a60a7375a57bcd37edad2c2e75f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-milter.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/clamav-milter.conf
/usr/sbin/clamav-milter
/usr/share/doc/clamav-milter
/usr/share/doc/clamav-milter/README.fedora
/usr/share/man/man8/clamav-milter.8.gz
/var/log/clamav-milter.log

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-milter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.