Stephen Cheboi said: > Hi, > Can someone briefly explain to me what binary packages are? I intend to > upgrade clamav from .70 to .87, but on going through the upgrade > instructions, there is a portion about precompiled binaries e.g Debian, > which i don't cleary understand. > > Stephen
Just be sure you've completely removed all the pieces of the previous ClamAV version - you cannot depend on the package installer to do any of this for you. This would include the executables, libraries, man pages, docs, config files, header files, init startup files, etc. And shut down any running clam processes before you start. I'd also examine the crontabs to see if you have any clam processes included there. You should probably get some good hardcopy or online documentation that discusses your version of Linux and the various package installation tools you are likely to use. That is more of a general purpose Linux/Debian question than a ClamAV question. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
