[clamav-users] Can't install clamav correctly

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021, a.maccanti at kayser.it wrote:

> I have a Variscite imx8mq board

How much RAM does it have?

> with Debian 10 OS (kernel v4.19.35-gd472046-dirty), I tried to
> install ClamAV following the guide at 
> https://www.clamav.net/documents/installation-on-debian-and-ubuntu-linux-distributions

To build ClamAV from source and install it needs some skills which it
seems you don't have.  Instead, I recommend installing from a package,
using the instructions at

https://www.clamav.net/documents/installing-clamav#Debian

Is there any reason that you did not first try to do that?

> So I decided to continue the procedure anyway ...

Bad idea.

> If I use the command clamscan I get the following error:
>
> root at imx8mq-var-dart:~/clamav-0.103.1# clamscan -r --remove /media/USB1

VERY bad idea.  It warns you in the manual pages (in the 'man' pages,
for example, after installing ClamAV type

man clamscan

in a terminal) that this is dangerous.  There are other dangerous
things that you can do with ClamAV.  Please read the documentation.

NEVER use --remove unless you REALLY know what you're doing.

What do you hope to get from ClamAV?

-- 

73,
Ged.