Howto Clamac/klamav Installation

Clamav/Klamav Issues
<blockquote>openSUSE 10.2
KDE 3.5</blockquote>

Not too many Linuxees seem to see the need for a virus scanner. I run Clamav/Klamav as a kind of courtesy for the Windows users with whom I exchange files and messages. Klamav is a frontend for Clamav and it works OK. However, there can be a number of error messages while running or updating the tool. It took me quite some time to sort out all the various little annoyances. Here are a few tips.

<blockquote>1. Preferably install Clamav/Klamav using your package manager (YaST, Smart etc). Once everything is running fine, you can update using the Update tab in Klamav. But... that's when the fun may start.</blockquote>
<blockquote>2. When you install the Clamav/Klamav packages, make sure you also install dazuko. Without that Clamav will not work. For openSUSE 10.2 that concerns these packages:
<blockquote>dazuko
dazuko-kmp-default (for most systems)
dazuko-kmp-xen (if you work with Xen virtualization)</blockquote></blockquote>
<blockquote>3. If you get the error message "Auto-Scan died unexpectedly" when you try to start the Auto-Scan function, check if /dev/dazuko is accessible for [user]. I tried to change the group from 'root' to 'users', but it got changed back every time again. Work-around: make [user] a member of group 'root'.</blockquote>
<blockquote>4. If you have trouble installing updates for Clamav/Klamav, make sure you installed these packages:
<blockquote>gmp-devel
mpfr-devel</blockquote> (to have /usr/lib/libgmp.la available).</blockquote>
<blockquote>5. A number of other packages may be useful or necessary to have installed:
<blockquote>kdelibs3-devel
kdebase3-devel
kdebindings3
qt3-devel-tools
qt3-extensions
qt3-static
libjpeg-devel
curl-devel
gcc-fortran
libgfortran41
automake
autoconf
autoconf-el</blockquote></blockquote>

More information can be found at:
<blockquote>Clamav Wiki
Klamav Wiki
</blockquote>
Have fun and be nice!

--
marting