How To Install clamd on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd on CentOS 7.
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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamd.
Install clamd on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install clamd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamd
Install clamd on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install clamd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamd
How To Uninstall clamd on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the clamd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamd on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.