Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > 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 I know he has worse problems that Clamav being out of date with 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 >
This would appear to be the easiest solution? >> 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 -- IBM: It's Become Monolithic 07:15:01 up 4 days, 10:09, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.49, 0.45 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
