Re: ClamAV install from synaptic on Dapper

On Monday 31 July 2006 13:59, John Dangler wrote:
I got this when installing clamav and freshclam this morning on a new

Dapper install using Synaptic...

E: clamav-base: subprocess post-installation script returned error
exit status 1
E: clamav-freshclam: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: clamav: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
E: clamav-daemon: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Your errors are for freshclam, not clamav, so that's not surprising.

[snip]

To scan additional file types there are optional packages you have to
install. You can find the list in the clamav listing at
http://packages.ubuntu.com/

I checked there, and didn't see anything listed that synaptic doesn't
already have. I googled around a bit for this and the only two
responses that seem to be the concensus are "ignore it" and "get the
-devel version, it might have better tar support".
I think that it throws up on .tar.gz files... seems that the only file
I didn't see in the scan list was the only tar file i had in the entire
dir with that extension.

OK. I don't think I've had that problem and I didn't install the devel
package, but I haven't specifically looked for it either.

You do want to make sure you have Freshclam working. It, by default, IIRC,
checks for updates on an hourly basis. It logs
to /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log. If it's working, you'll see there. If you
don't have freshclam working then you won't get the updated virus signature
files without installing them manually.

Scott K

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