How To Install libclamav9 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclamav9
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libclamav9
libclamav9 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.
For programs written using the libclamav library. Libclamav may be used to add virus protection into software. The library is thread-safe, and automatically recognizes and scans archives. Scanning is very fast and most of the time not noticeable.
Package: libclamav9 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: clamav Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: ClamAV Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2192 Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.29), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libjson-c4 (>= 0.13.1), libltdl7 (>= 2.4.6), libmspack0 (>= 0.4), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libtfm1 (>= 0.13), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4) Suggests: libclamunrar9 Filename: pool/main/c/clamav/libclamav9_0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 790756 MD5sum: 643dca1bf9d522973a7b6c00ed7bafd9 SHA1: b4d797dcbccb579a0ab50edc5e3f5db8698d4d1e SHA256: 120d48615aec5b0ffdcb3b74696d7b6984065888523a96f6cecb4c7bbf589318 Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/ Description-en: anti-virus utility for Unix - library 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.
For programs written using the libclamav library. Libclamav may be used to add virus protection into software. The library is thread-safe, and automatically recognizes and scans archives. Scanning is very fast and most of the time not noticeable.
There are three methods to install libclamav9
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 libclamav9 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libclamav9
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libclamav9
Install libclamav9 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libclamav9
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libclamav9
Install libclamav9 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 libclamav9
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libclamav9
How To Uninstall libclamav9 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libclamav9
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libclamav9
Uninstall libclamav9 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libclamav9
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libclamav9
Remove libclamav9 Configurations and Data
To remove libclamav9
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libclamav9
Remove libclamav9 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libclamav9
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libclamav9
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libclamav9
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.