[clamav-users] Updating ClamAV

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Prabin Tamang via clamav-users wrote:

> ... wondering if simply running "yum update clamav" will do the trick?

Under most circumstances I would expect that to be sufficient, yes.

> or Will i have to uninstall the current version of clamav and then
> get the new package and install it again?

It should be very rare for this to be necessary, and I'd consider it a
failure of both upstream measures to retain backward compatibility and
of the stated intent of the packaging system(s).  But stranger things
have happened - usually it would be because of substantial changes in
the capabilities of the package, or the way(s) that they are provided.

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73,
Ged.