How To Install clamav-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-daemon
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clamav-daemon
clamav-daemon is:
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software.
This package contains the daemon featuring:
- fast, multi-threaded daemon;
- easy integration with MTA’s;
- support for on-access scanning;
- remote scanning;
- able to be run supervised by daemon.
Package: clamav-daemon Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: utils Source: clamav Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ClamAV Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1145 Depends: adduser, clamav-base (= 0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1), clamav-freshclam (>= 0.102.2+dfsg) | clamav-data, dpkg (>= 1.16.1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), procps (>= 1:3.3.2), ucf, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.28), libclamav9 (>= 0.102.2), libcurl4 (>= 7.18.2), libncurses6 (>= 6), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libsystemd0, libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0.2) Recommends: clamdscan Suggests: apparmor, clamav-docs, daemon Filename: pool/main/c/clamav/clamav-daemon_0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 228004 MD5sum: a02e831869fa223ff5d60d08a3615293 SHA1: 67bee2b13ed9a65eefbb2a465384ddf1d73436dc SHA256: 19d53bb7fb8c7b463cc3b2c510959c535fa2990c94e5ffd1e42a052c0e8596a5 Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/ Description-en: anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner daemon Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software.
This package contains the daemon featuring:
- fast, multi-threaded daemon;
- easy integration with MTA’s;
- support for on-access scanning;
- remote scanning;
- able to be run supervised by daemon.
There are three methods to install clamav-daemon
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install clamav-daemon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clamav-daemon
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clamav-daemon
Install clamav-daemon Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clamav-daemon
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clamav-daemon
Install clamav-daemon Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install clamav-daemon
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clamav-daemon
How To Uninstall clamav-daemon on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clamav-daemon
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clamav-daemon
Uninstall clamav-daemon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clamav-daemon
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamav-daemon
Remove clamav-daemon Configurations and Data
To remove clamav-daemon
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clamav-daemon
Remove clamav-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clamav-daemon
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamav-daemon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-daemon
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.