How To Install clamd on Fedora 34

clamd is The Clam AntiVirus Daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd on Fedora 34.

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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamd.

Install clamd on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove clamd

clamd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/run/clamd.scan
/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/9c6bff4af221285453db17530b5657690628b2
/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
/run/clamd.scan
/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/40cbeb38b97aa692a231f4059d8a9e2888d399
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.