How To Install clamav-docs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-docs on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: clamav-docs Architecture: all Version: 0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: doc Source: clamav Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ClamAV Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 478 Filename: pool/main/c/clamav/clamav-docs_0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 151992 MD5sum: 065b132db2bc7635706d56e242ce36fd SHA1: b075ad6f976f6ed7accb6db46c2407e4ee06d82d SHA256: 35798ff155694c7d31a103998acc3b1dabaee29e6e0725815c84d30197da0912 Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/ Description-en: anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation 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 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-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 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-docs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clamav-docs
How To Uninstall clamav-docs on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-docs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
