[clamav-users] Problem Updating using freshclam

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, I via clamav-users wrote:

> I'm new ...

Welcome. :)

> ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process

You probably have a freshclam daemon process running which has taken
hold of the log file.  Lots of ways of avoiding this issue but right
now the simplest thing to do is probably nothing.  Check whether you
have a freshclam daemon running by using (for example) 'top' or 'ps'
at the command line.  Look in the log that is mentioned in the error
message, to see if it contains records of database updates.  If you
run a freshclam daemon then you don't need to run freshclam by hand.

> Package libpcre3-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.

Don't wory about that just now.  If you use the Ubuntu package manager
to install ClamAV in the way that you're supposed to use it, then it's
will just work.  The list of things that you've tried to install there
is only for building from the source tarball downloaded from ClamAV's
Website - if you install using the Ubuntu package you don't need them.

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73,
Ged.