How To Install clamd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd on CentOS 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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamd.
Install clamd 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 clamd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamd
Install clamd 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 clamd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamd
How To Uninstall clamd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clamd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamd
clamd Package Contents on CentOS 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 CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.