Install ClamAV on Redhat or CentOS

Apr 19

Posted by Fawkes in Advice, Linux, Software

I never understood why ClamAV isn’t available through the repositories because it is a great package.

So, for those of you on CentOS or Redhat systems, here’s how to get ClamAV on Redhat or CentOS…

First, we must setup access to the repository, to do this we need to get the RPM package for the repository for our architecture.

You can do this here:

So if I’m running Redhat or CentOS 5 on a 64-bit system with a 64-bit version of either operating system I would run:

rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

Then:

yum update

up2date -u

Now that we’ve added the repository and gotten the package lists from them, let’s install ClamAV!

yum install clamav-db clamav clamd

up2date -i clamav-db clamav clamd

Next we need to edit our clamd.conf file and change configuration values a bit in /etc/clamd.conf:

TCPAddr 127.0.0.1
TCPSocket 3310
User root
MaxThreads 30

Finally, start or restart clamd:

/etc/init.d/clamd restart

That’s it, you’ve installed clamAV on CentOS or RedHat (this assumes you’re NOT installing for a cPanel/WHM server).

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