Deploy ClamAV on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

Installing from source

• Check Requirements
• Uninstall any old version, see UninstallClamAV (Note: this isn’t essential, but removes sources of problems).
• wget the source gzip file, see WhichVersion
• untar the source to an appropriate location. Note that most modern versions of tar will automatically ungzip for you.
• ensure you have a user clamav and group clamav.
  
  • If you’re using a different group/user you must specify that using the –with-user and/or –with-group option when you run configure
• Configure the build:
  
  • for clamav-milter support ./configure –enable-milter
  • to support new features ./configure –enable-experimental
  • otherwise ./configure
• run make
• if you did not uninstall the previous version, stop any running services.
• as root, run “make install” to install the binaries
• it is recommended that you run ldconfig as root after installing
• restart any relevant services.
• Run freshclam manually, to ensure your AV definitions are up to date.

Requirements

Mandatory:

• C compiler
• zlib library
  

  Note: you must compile with a shared library, use: make clean ; ./configure -s before make when building zlib

Optional:

• GMP: for digital signatures
• cURL: for mail follow url