How To Install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8

clamav-unofficial-sigs is Scripts to download unofficial clamav signatures

Introduction

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

What is clamav-unofficial-sigs

This package contains scripts and configuration files that provide the capability to download, test, and update the 3rd-party signature databases provide by Sanesecurity, SecuriteInfo, MalwarePatrol, OITC, INetMsg and ScamNailer.

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

Install clamav-unofficial-sigs 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-unofficial-sigs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs

Install clamav-unofficial-sigs 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-unofficial-sigs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs

How To Uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove clamav-unofficial-sigs

clamav-unofficial-sigs Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/master.conf
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/os.conf
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/user.conf
/etc/cron.d/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/etc/logrotate.d/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-unofficial-sigs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-unofficial-sigs.timer
/usr/sbin/clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh
/usr/share/doc/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/share/doc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/share/licenses/clamav-unofficial-sigs/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/clamav-unofficial-sigs.8.gz
/var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/var/log/clamav-unofficial-sigs

References

Summary

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