How To Install clamdscan on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamdscan on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is clamdscan
clamdscan 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 clamdscan, the command line interface of the clamav daemon.
Package: clamdscan 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: 322 Depends: clamav-base (= 0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.28), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0) Suggests: clamav-daemon, clamav-docs Filename: pool/main/c/clamav/clamdscan_0.102.2+dfsg-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 80948 MD5sum: 068ef9084edb76b4ddf3f8c98c44547c SHA1: 42d6a0c330988fe32530f48a6ab877f61c37e45b SHA256: bd0f5ab03b80879f73f39e25fce56247cdd5b6d283c95d68bacd39b6a28be70f Homepage: https://www.clamav.net/ Description-en: anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner client 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 clamdscan, the command line interface of the clamav daemon.
There are three methods to install clamdscan 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 clamdscan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clamdscan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clamdscan
Install clamdscan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clamdscan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clamdscan
Install clamdscan 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 clamdscan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clamdscan
How To Uninstall clamdscan on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the clamdscan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clamdscan
Uninstall clamdscan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clamdscan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamdscan
Remove clamdscan Configurations and Data
To remove clamdscan configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clamdscan
Remove clamdscan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clamdscan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamdscan
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamdscan package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
