Re: ClamAV installation required?

Hi,

I have now reinstalled my computer because white screen of death and am using the "Ubunturized" ClamAV version again. I seem to have no way to escape Ubuntu.
Then I just have to live with restrictions, it doesn't seem to be changeable on easy way.

Marc

Von / From: 	Via Clamav-Users <mailto:[email protected]>
An / To: 	Newcomer01 <mailto:[email protected]>
CC / CC: 	Matus Uhlar - Fantomas <mailto:[email protected]>
Gesendet / Sent: 	Dienstag, Juli 15, 2025 um 14:23 (at 02:23 PM) +0200
Betreff / Subject: 	Re: [clamav-users] ClamAV installation required?


> On 13.07.25 01:18, Newcomer01 via clamav-users wrote:
>> What should I show? Have written a small shell script, which copies
>> all folders an files from the extracted clamav-linux deb to /usr/local
>> It's a simple for loop...
> So, instead of using ClamAV packaged by Ubuntu, supported by Ubuntu,
> security-patched by Ubuntu and periodically upgraded by Ubuntu, including
> upgrading together with Ubuntu OS
> - and thus fulfilling dependencies and avoiding conflicts
>
> you have chosen to "install" it yourself, in unsupported way, manually
> moving files to semi-random places?
>
> Good luck with that.
>
>
>> Am 13. Juli 2025 02:30:34 schrieb Masaru Nomiya via clamav-users
>> <[email protected]>:
>>> Subject    : [clamav-users] ClamAV installation required?
>>> Message-ID :<[email protected]>
>>> Date & Time: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:47:02 +0000
>>>
>>> [Marc] == Newcomer01 via clamav-users
>>> <[email protected]> has written:
>>>
>>> Marc>  Hi @all,
>>>
>>> Marc>  I’ve now decided to stop using (and uninstall) the heavily
>>> Marc>  modified ClamAV version provided by Ubuntu.
>>> Marc>  Instead, I downloaded the |.deb| package, unpacked it, and
>>> Marc>  manually copied all folders and files into |/usr/local|.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Please show us the steps you took manually.

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