Information about the package, clamav, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The clamav package is designed for, Anti-virus software.
Package Name:
clamav
Summary:
Anti-virus software
Description:
Clam AntiVirus is a GPL 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, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.99.4
Release:
1.el6
Size:
4.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the clamav package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install clamav
This command will install clamav on the server.
yum remove clamav
This command will un-install clamav on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove clamav, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove clamav
This command will un-install clamav on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove clamav when using the -y flag.
yum update clamav
This command will update clamav to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove clamav, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update clamav
This command will update clamav to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove clamav when using the -y flag.
yum info clamav
This command will show you core information about the clamav package.
yum deplist clamav
This command will show you the dependencies for clamav. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update clamav
This command will check if there is an update waiting on clamav. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.