Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8.
What is clamav-unofficial-sigs
This package contains scripts and configuration files that provide the capability to download, test, and update the 3rd-party signature databases provide by Sanesecurity, SecuriteInfo, MalwarePatrol, OITC, INetMsg and ScamNailer.
We can use yum or dnf to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamav-unofficial-sigs.
Install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clamav-unofficial-sigs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs
Install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install clamav-unofficial-sigs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamav-unofficial-sigs
How To Uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clamav-unofficial-sigs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamav-unofficial-sigs
clamav-unofficial-sigs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/master.conf
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/os.conf
/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/user.conf
/etc/cron.d/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/etc/logrotate.d/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-unofficial-sigs.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-unofficial-sigs.timer
/usr/sbin/clamav-unofficial-sigs.sh
/usr/share/doc/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/share/doc/clamav-unofficial-sigs/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/usr/share/licenses/clamav-unofficial-sigs/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/clamav-unofficial-sigs.8.gz
/var/lib/clamav-unofficial-sigs
/var/log/clamav-unofficial-sigs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
