[clamav-users] Question about clamAV dependencies

[Ttito Concha, Darwin]

Hi Andrew, thanks for the quick reply.

I am using it to scan any type of file that is uploaded to our server.

Regards,
Darwin

On 09/12/20 18:53, "Andrew C Aitchison" <andrew at aitchison.me.uk> wrote:

    On Wed, 9 Dec 2020, Ttito Concha, Darwin via clamav-users wrote:

    > Hi Team,
    >
    > Currently I am using ClamAV in openSUSE. So to install it I run
    > zypper install clamav, which ask to install 27 dependencies.
    > I would like to know if all these dependencies are needed, since I
    > tried to install clamAV only by installing two of these
    > dependencies: libclammspack0, libclamav7; and it seems to work
    > without problems. Do you know if it is safe to do this?
    >
    > I noticed that the two packages mentioned above are the minimum
    > requirements of clamAV since without them the clamd process does not
    > start.
    >
    > $zypper install clamav
    > Resolving dependencies...
    > Resolving package dependencies...
    >
    > The following 27 NEW packages are going to be installed:
    >  blog clamav dbus-1 gawk kbd kbd-legacy kmod libapparmor1
    >  libargon2-1 libclamav7 libclammspack0 libcryptsetup12 libdbus-1-3
    >  libdevmapper1_03 libexpat1 libjson-c3 libkmod2 libltdl7
    >  libqrencode4 libseccomp2 pam-config pkg-config systemd
    >  systemd-presets-branding-SLE sysvinit-tools udev
    >  update-alternatives

    They look reasonable packages to have on a linux system
    - I am surprised that you are running with so few of them already installed.

    You will have problems with some features of clamav without some of
    those packages. For example I suspect that on-access scanning will
    fail without kmod.

    What are you using clamav to do ?

    -- 
    Andrew C. Aitchison					Kendal, UK
     			andrew at aitchison.me.uk