I updated clamav today and used it numerous times this day. Then right out of the blue it just up and vanished right off my computer. It even took its icon. I cannot find any trace of it. Even reinstalled it but it doesn’t show up. That’s not right.
It might seem that way to you 
How did you install it? Via RPM, or tarball?
If you installed as RPM via repository, you can check if it’s still installed with
rpm -qa|grep clamav
That program has been on my machine for maybe a year. Where is it now hiding. According to yast it is still there.
How are you expecting to find it?
ie, Are you running the configuration/system in your signature, ie
openSUSE 13.1
KDE 4.10
If you’re invoking from a Desktop Menu?
Have you tried from the command line?
Are you running it integrated with something else?
Have you checked its running status?
systemctl status clamd
So, for instance could you have accidentally just invoked a different KDE Desktop? (Click on the Desktops in your taskbar)
Have you accidentally changed workspaces?
TSU
Further to tsu’s advice - I don’t use the this application, but I assume it auto-starts, and you’re used to seeing an icon in the system tray. Which means you had a GUI front-end (eg clamtk) installed as well. Maybe that is missing for some reason, (while clamav process runs in the background).
On 2014-05-07 20:46, deano ferrari wrote:
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> Further to tsu’s advice - I don’t use the this application, but I assume
> it auto-starts, and you’re used to seeing an icon in the system tray.
> Which means you had a GUI front-end (eg clamtk) installed as well. Maybe
> that is missing for some reason, (while clamav process runs in the
> background).
clamav can be used with or without clamd running, or even present.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
Update for what its worth. After removing and reinstalling, I can only open clamtk through terminal, and only continue to use it if terminal continues to be opened. They are joined together for whatever reason.
That’s normal. You have to use an & (ampersand) at the end of the command used to launch it, so that it runs as a background process.
Have a look at the installed files associated with clamtk. It should have a .desktop file located somewhere. It’s a GTK application, so may not offer a KDE menu icon, but easy to add in any case.
On 2014-05-08 01:46, mike7757 wrote:
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> Update for what its worth. After removing and reinstalling, I can only
> open clamtk through terminal, and only continue to use it if terminal
> continues to be opened. They are joined together for whatever reason.
If you open anything from a terminal, closing that terminal kills that
anything.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I guess it doesn’t matter as to why this happened. The question is can I have things the old way. with my icons.
No reason why not (as I already hinted at). Did you have an icon on the desktop and/or panel and/or menu?
desktop and menu
Open Dolphin. Navigate to /usr/share/applications/clamtk.desktop, and drag this file to your desktop.
To add to the KDE menu, right-click on the menu icon > Edit Applications… > navigate to System > Security and drag the .desktop icon to ‘Security’. Then click on ‘Save’. Now you have dekstop and menu launchers.
You may also need to select ‘Only show in KDE’ (while in KDE Menu editor).
BTW, if you right-click on a menu icon, you can choose to add icons (plasmoids) to panel or desktop as required.
I tried your suggestions twice, didn’t work neither time. I was hoping. Maybe there is a bigger issue that I am not seeing.
How do I make sure that everything clamav/clamtk is completely removed from pc. Maybe it needs a clean install.
Never mind…It finally showed up. it wasn’t there the first time I looked. I still don’t know why this took place.
So, you finally got there. Well done.