How To Install clamtk on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamtk on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is clamtk
clamtk is:
ClamTk is a graphical front-end for Clam Antivirus.
It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems.
Context menu support for KDE’s Plasma Desktop (Dolphin file manager) and Nemo and Thunar sendto is included. Context menu support for GNOME (Nautilus file manager), but due to additional dependencies required, it is in a separate package: clamtk-gnome.
There are three methods to install clamtk 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 clamtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clamtk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clamtk
Install clamtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clamtk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clamtk
Install clamtk 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 clamtk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clamtk
How To Uninstall clamtk on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the clamtk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clamtk
Uninstall clamtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clamtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clamtk
Remove clamtk Configurations and Data
To remove clamtk configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clamtk
Remove clamtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clamtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clamtk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamtk package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
