Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-milter on CentOS 8.
What is clamav-milter
This package contains files which are needed to run the clamav-milter.
We can use yum or dnf to install clamav-milter on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clamav-milter.
Install clamav-milter 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-milter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install clamav-milter
Install clamav-milter 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-milter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install clamav-milter
How To Uninstall clamav-milter on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the clamav-milter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove clamav-milter
clamav-milter Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/mail
/etc/mail/clamav-milter.conf
/run/clamav-milter
/run/clamav-milter/clamav-milter.socket
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/df70a3d44d0a60a7375a57bcd37edad2c2e75f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-milter.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/clamav-milter.conf
/usr/sbin/clamav-milter
/usr/share/doc/clamav-milter
/usr/share/doc/clamav-milter/README.fedora
/usr/share/man/man8/clamav-milter.8.gz
/var/log/clamav-milter.log
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clamav-milter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
