How To Install clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is clamav-unofficial-sigs
clamav-unofficial-sigs is:
This package provides a script for updating the following sources of 3rd-party clamav signatures until freshclamav gains support for such signatures.
The SaneSecurity/OITC signatures provide detection of phishing, spear phishing, fake lottery, ecard malware, casino, fake jobs, fake loans, 419s, fake diplomas, porn, emailed malware and other general spam.
MSRBL signatures provide detection of image spam and general spam.
SecuriteInfo signatures provide various badware signatures, securiteinfo.com honeypot signatures, honeynet.cz signatures and French anti-spam signatures
MalwarePatrol provides detection of mail containing URLs to malware.
There are three methods to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-unofficial-sigs 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-unofficial-sigs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs
Install clamav-unofficial-sigs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clamav-unofficial-sigs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs
Install clamav-unofficial-sigs 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-unofficial-sigs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs
How To Uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the clamav-unofficial-sigs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clamav-unofficial-sigs
Uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamav-unofficial-sigs
Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs Configurations and Data
To remove clamav-unofficial-sigs configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clamav-unofficial-sigs
Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clamav-unofficial-sigs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamav-unofficial-sigs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-unofficial-sigs package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
