What is the "official way" to install clamav?

[Martín Marqués]

El Lun 25 Jul 2005 18:07, Captain Bubudiu escribió:
>  --- Martín Marqués <martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar> wrote: 
> > clamd is not in extras. You can get it from dag's
> > repos.
> 
> I believe  the questions i asked are self explanatory,
> and logically subsequent  (apriori in Latin) :-
> 
> My question to the extras package maintainer :-

I am not the maintainer, but I use clamd.

> 1. Are we supposed to install the dag wieers packages
> on top of the extras ones?

I used to have extras clamav and clamav-db, but finished installing dag's 
because the lack of clamd in extras. I prefer a daemon scanning.

> 2. Did you actually test and see that clamav is
> installable and usable?  (This question is most
> crucial)

I my case, I had to do some extra work, and what really bothers me is that I 
have to do it every time I upgrade (put clamd to work with amavisd user, and 
have the /var/run/clamd directory have user amavis). This is what the 
packages docs say, but the don't do it automatically.

All this with dag's clamd.

> 3. What is the purpose of the clamav packages in
> extras?(This again is very important. What is the
> purpose of including a non-functional package? )

Does it really not work? When I tried it, it worked OK. Maybe you have trouble 
integrating it with your MTA.

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