clamav installation question

Semih Ozlem

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Feb 25, 2021, 3:20:04 PM2/25/21

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Hi everyone

When I try to install clamav I am getting errots

When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site instruction

(i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository

(ii) freshclam gives the error

"!checkdbdir: Can't ope directory /var/lib/clamav/"

(iii) I can't be sure if it is running or not. systemctl status clamav-daemon.service states it to be inactive.

when I try to follow the instructions on clamav's site

check-devel package is a requirement but is unavailable in debian repository.

Dan Ritter

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Feb 25, 2021, 3:50:04 PM2/25/21

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You just need to install:

clamav
clamav-base
clamav-freshclam
libclamav9

and doing

sudo apt install clamav

will bring in clamav-freshclam, which will bring in clamav-base
and libclamav9.

You don't need clamv-data, because clamav-freshclam will update
the data for you.

-dsr-

Patrick Bartek

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Feb 25, 2021, 4:40:04 PM2/25/21

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Check your apt sources.list is set up. Also, you have to be root to
install packages.

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Semih Ozlem

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Feb 26, 2021, 1:00:05 AM2/26/21

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I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l results. The problem is it is not functioning properly. So I am wondering if anyone else had similar issues or not.

Patrick Bartek <nemo...@gmail.com>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 00:34 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

john doe

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Feb 26, 2021, 2:00:05 AM2/26/21

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On 2/26/2021 6:58 AM, Semih Ozlem wrote:
> I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l
> results. The problem is it is not functioning properly.
>

What do you mean by "not working properly"?

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Charles Curley

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Feb 26, 2021, 2:00:05 AM2/26/21

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:58:06 +0300
Semih Ozlem <semihozle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am able to install clamav and clamav-daemon. It appears in dpkg -l
> results. The problem is it is not functioning properly. So I am
> wondering if anyone else had similar issues or not.

Can you be a bit more explicit? What did you get, and what were you
expecting?

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Semih Ozlem

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Feb 26, 2021, 2:20:04 AM2/26/21

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user@debian:~$ sudo systemctl status clamav-daemon.service
● clamav-daemon.service - Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/clamav-daemon.service.d
└─extend.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Fri 2021-02-26 10:15:57 +03; 1min 30s ago
└─ ConditionPathExistsGlob=/var/lib/clamav/daily.{c[vl]d,inc} was not met
Docs: man:clamd(8)
man:clamd.conf(5)
https://www.clamav.net/documents/

Feb 26 10:15:57 debian systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Clam AntiVirus userspace daemon being skipped.

Charles Curley <charle...@charlescurley.com>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 09:54 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

Semih Ozlem

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Feb 26, 2021, 2:30:05 AM2/26/21

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Sorry, stopping and restarting the service seems to have solved the problem.

Semih Ozlem <semihozle...@gmail.com>, 26 Şub 2021 Cum, 10:18 tarihinde şunu yazdı:

Patrick Bartek

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Feb 26, 2021, 11:00:06 AM2/26/21

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On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 10:19:56 +0300
Semih Ozlem <semihozle...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, stopping and restarting the service seems to have solved the
> problem.

Does it work after a cold system restart without restarting it manually?
If not, my guess is some clamav or clamav-daemon dependency is not
getting loaded. I'm not running the daemon and clamav run manually
works fine. Clamav-freshclam works fine, too, without manually starting
it. But I'm not running a standard desktop set up. Just a window
manager and a panel.

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