Re: ClamAV 1.4 as Next Long-Term Stable (LTS)

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025, newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:

> That is great news Micah.
>
> Thank you and your team for continuously developing clamav!
>
> Is there a way to get the 1.4.1 LTS for Ubuntu 24.04.* LTS directly from 
clamav (via a "special"
> ppa maybe)?
> We talked little about that in the past.
> Ubuntu is unfortunately very slow in delivering software, they get all 
the files they need from
> clamav, what else needs to be changed or customized?

ClamAV do ship packages for Debian/Ubuntu, but not as a ppa - see:
   https://www.clamav.net/downloads#collapseLinuxlts

https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing/Packages.html
describes some of the differences betwen ClamAV packages from ClamAV
and from Linux distributions.

IIUC these differences are because ClamAV have a tool that makes packages 
(.rpm and .deb etc)
directly as part of the build process.

I find that the Ubuntu packages are significantly better integrated into 
the OS than the packages
from ClamAV.
ClamAV's package works fine, but not in the Ubuntu way.

> If you have the opportunity and time, you can also contact me directly, 
as this is maybe a little
> away of topic or the sense of this group.

I think this issue *is* of interest to this group.

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    [email protected]
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