How do I install clamav [SOLVED]

[NimaSepassi]

So I've gone to this page:

http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/ ... ges-linux/

and tried to follow the instructions for Ubuntu. However i don't know how to enable the backport repositories in my system.

Can anyone help?

[RedWagon]

You don't need to do that, it's already included in Mint's default repos. Just run

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sudo apt-get install clamav

to install it.

[MysticGold04]

also if you want the GUI to be available, you need to install the package "clamtk" as well.

[vincent]

The Clamav version in the default repos is somewhat outdated; I'd recommend using a PPA from Launchpad to get the latest version, ClamAV 0.96 (I believe).

In your terminal:

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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-clamav/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clamav clamtk

(I added Clamtk in there because you may find a GUI version of ClamAV helpful. If you want to run clamav solely from command-line commands, then omit "clamtk".)

[NimaSepassi]

Cool thanks. I'm hoping this is the best anti-virus out there.

[kingegbert]

To be frank AVG for linux seems to be the most popular. Don't know if it is better or not but it is out there.

[kamperone]

Thanks - it worked just fine

[NimaSepassi]

The help is well appreciated.

When run, it says there's a new GUI version. How would that get updated? The app itself is already the latest.

Thanks,
-Nima (xy)

[vincent]

http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/

Download and install the .deb package, and it should work. At least, it works for me.

[NimaSepassi]

Thanks, GUI updated.

[uwex]

Very helpful instructions, thanks a lot !
Clamav is installed and updated, clamtk installed with no probems, I took them from Launchpad repositories.
Just like Nima said, clamtk is out of date and so I took it from from sourgeforce.net, extracted it with archivmanager to a folder in my home-directory.

But how can I install it from this folder? with "sudo apt-get install clamtk" always the repositories in the sources.list are used

Thanks for help

[vincent]

When you install clamtk from Sourceforge, you'll get a .deb package (or a tarball containing a .deb package, I suppose). All you have to do is to double click on the .deb package and the Gdebi program will pop up, and then you can press the shiny "Install package" button, put in your password, and Gdebi will do the rest of the work for you.

[longshanks67]

Hi,
Being a newbie myself I too have downloaded Clamav but cannot workout how to install it even after reading the above comments.
can someone kindly give a blow by blow instruction. So far I have opened terminal typed in the suggested code only to be asked for my sudo P/W ? what is needed is "first do this, then do that" without assuming that we are all Linux competent yet.
regards

[Pjotr]

Hi,
Being a newbie myself I too have downloaded Clamav but cannot workout how to install it even after reading the above comments.
can someone kindly give a blow by blow instruction. So far I have opened terminal typed in the suggested code only to be asked for my sudo P/W ? what is needed is "first do this, then do that" without assuming that we are all Linux competent yet.
regards

Unless you're running a server, you don't need antivirus of any kind. Not in your Linux desktop. In fact, AV even makes your system less secure: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... t/security

[longshanks67]

I appreciate your reply but I still want to know how to install.

[jimallyn]

Longshanks67, you would install clamav the same way you would install anything else on Mint: using Synaptic or Software Manager.

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