How To Install clamav-docs on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-docs on Kali Linux.

What is clamav-docs

clamav-docs 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 documentation for the ClamAV suite.

There are three methods to install clamav-docs on Kali Linux. 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-docs 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-docs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install clamav-docs

Install clamav-docs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clamav-docs

Install clamav-docs Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install clamav-docs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clamav-docs

How To Uninstall clamav-docs on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove clamav-docs

Uninstall clamav-docs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall clamav-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamav-docs

Remove clamav-docs Configurations and Data

To remove clamav-docs configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge clamav-docs

Remove clamav-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove clamav-docs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamav-docs

Dependencies

clamav-docs have the following dependencies:

References

• clamav-docs website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-docs package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.