I broke clamav-daemon

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On a Debian 5 server I was getting the following error in my logwatch reports on a daily basis:

Last Status:
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.94.2 Recommended version: 0.95.1
DON’T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

so I followed the URL listed above and followed the instructions, but went a step too far…

I upgraded to the latest stable version but I still get the message Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED, why?

* Make sure there is really only one version of ClamAV installed on your system:

[code:1]
$ whereis freshclam
$ whereis clamscan
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* Also make sure that you havenâ
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have you tried apt-get clean or autoclean??

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Sure did Wayne, clean didn’t do anything notable… but the autoclean removed every perl library, postfix, virtualmin, apache and much much more. I was able to get them all back and running with the install.sh but clamav is still not functioning. I hosed it good! :frowning:

Thanks for asking!

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The clam folks have become ridiculous

You haven’t told us how you actually upgraded clamav. I would recommend the volatile repository for Debian. Installing from source is generally a horrible idea.

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Hi Joe, I’m sorry, I installed it from volatile using apt. I’m thinking that if I can find the same version file on another server I can plop it in place, change the permissions and create a symbolic link to it?

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I would file a bug with the Debian folks rather than trying to hack it into working.

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10-4
Thanks for the advice! And, what is more… thanks for the best tool I’ve ever used.

Virtualmin is fantastic. What a work saver. Every day I spend with it brings something new OR relieves painful tasks.

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OK, running:
aptitude to reinstall libclamav has resolved the problem I created and brought me back to the original issue with my clamav being out dated so I’ll search elsewhere for that info.

Thanks again!

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