Semih Ozlem wrote: > When I try to install clamav I am getting errots > When I try to follow installation instructions from debian's site > instruction > > (i) clamav-data package is not available in the repository > (ii) freshclam gives the error > "!checkdbdir: Can't ope directory /var/lib/clamav/" > (iii) I can't be sure if it is running or not. systemctl status > clamav-daemon.service states it to be inactive. > > when I try to follow the instructions on clamav's site > > check-devel package is a requirement but is unavailable in debian > repository.
You just need to install: clamav clamav-base clamav-freshclam libclamav9 and doing sudo apt install clamav will bring in clamav-freshclam, which will bring in clamav-base and libclamav9. You don't need clamv-data, because clamav-freshclam will update the data for you. -dsr-