How To Install The Latest Version Of Clamav (v0.93-0.2)

I will try to describe how I manage to get the final version (0.93-0.2) of ClamAV running AT LAST today, after living a whole nightmare, to finally get it up and running.

Well at least until the official package has been released, for OS 10.3. Ok, here I go...

1) The first step is to uninstall any previous version you have installed. Apparently YaST2 (if you installed ClamAV v0.92 from there) leaves traces behind, so this will not be enough.

There are some serious library issues around yet with the new version, if you dont believe me, just check the ClamAV Forums to check how many people using different distros, are complaining about the lots of problem they are having to making to work ClamAV v0.93-0.2, even when there is is available a RPM for their specific distro.

2) I had to install from SOURCE the earlier version (0.92.1) to uninstall it latter. And only by doing this I really erased all the traces behind, to prepare the system to a fresh installation.

So just make the traditional install process when installing from sources. Once the source package has been uncompressed:

• ./configure
• make
• make install

Then proceed to uninstall it

• ./configure
• make
• make uninstall

Ok now grab the RPM released for openSUSE 10.3 (maintained by Reinhard Max) from here:

i386
or
x64

... depending on your architecture.

3) Now you can finally proceed to install the RPM package, as usual

rpm -ivlh <package-name>

4) Reboot your machine (this was really important, I read somewhere that it was recommended to restart the services, but since I didn't know what services, how to restar them, I prefered to reboot the PC)

5) Now try to update the virus database by running:

freshclam

Ok, now you are done, even when you possibly will receive a warning like this, at the end of the process:

Dixie7:~ # freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Mon Apr 21 13:36:37 2008
Downloading main.cvd [100%]
main.cvd updated (version: 46, sigs: 231834, f-level: 26, builder: sven)
Downloading daily.cvd [100%]
daily.cvd updated (version: 6865, sigs: 35377, f-level: 26, builder: ccordes)
Database updated (267211 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 65.120.238.5)
WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/lib/clamav/clamd-socket
connect(): No such file or directory[/b]

Hope this little guide helps some guys, to have their AVs updated.

PD: If someone knows how to solve the WARNING issue shown in step 5), please let me know, how to bypass/solve this problem.