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Installation</A>
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<P>
Please read the README file in the current version, because it may
contain some important release notes.
If you are installing ClamAV for the first time, you have to add a new
<I>clamav</I> user and group to your system: <A NAME="tex2html10"
HREF="footnode.html#foot137"><SUP>3</SUP></A>
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<PRE>
# groupadd clamav
# useradd -g clamav -s /bin/false -c "Clam AntiVirus" clamav
</PRE>
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The above method works on Linux and Solaris, in case you don't have
<I>groupadd, useradd</I> please consult a system manual.
If you are installing ClamAV on user account you may omit this step with
the option <I>-disable-clamav</I> passed to the <I>configure</I> script:
<PRE>
$ ./configure --disable-clamav
</PRE>
This disables test for the <I>clamav</I> user and group. <B>clamscan</B>
still requires <I>clamav</I> to work in the superuser mode. The password
for the <I>clamav</I> account should be locked in <I>/etc/passwd</I> or
<I>/etc/shadow</I>.
<P>
Once you have created the clamav user and group, please extract the archive:
<PRE>
$ zcat clamav-x.yz.tar.gz | tar xvf -
$ cd clamav-x.yz
</PRE>
Assuming you want to have the configuration file installed in /etc,
configure the package as follows:
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$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
</PRE>
Currently <I>gcc</I> is required for the compilation. Support for other
compilers will be added in a near future.
<PRE>
$ make
$ su -c "make install"
</PRE>
In the last step software is installed in the /usr/local directory
and the config file in /etc.
<B>WARNING: Never set SUID or SGID bits on Clam AntiVirus programs.</B>
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