On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 06:22 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
> I have a client who for a variety of reasons is still running Fedora 
> Core 3. I know he has worse problems that Clamav being out of date with 

I'm doing the same on Fedora Core 4.

> this, but I'm wondering if there is a way to get Clamav up to date on 
> this system.

Find a recent clamav-*.src.rpm (from Fedora 10 or whatever) and
`rpmbuild --rebuild` it und `rpm -Uvh` it

> Previously all upgrades were done via RPM, which of course has not been 
> possible for a long time.

Unless you build the few you really need updated yourself.

> If I were to remove the existing clamav (clamav-0.88.7-1) and install 
> the current version from source, are the libraries and all there that 
> are needed to compile the current version on this old machine? I would 
> think probably they are not, but I'd like to confirm this with someone 
> more knowledgable.

clamav-0.95.1 runs and works AFAICS with libs from FC4. So I would try
it on FC3 similarly.

        Bernd
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