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Compilation of base package

Once you have created the clamav user and group, please extract the archive:
	$ zcat clamav-x.yz.tar.gz | tar xvf -
	$ cd clamav-x.yz
Assuming you want to install the configuration files in /etc, configure the package as follows:
	$ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
Currently gcc is required to compile ClamAV.
	$ make
	$ su -c "make install"
In the last step the software is installed in the /usr/local directory and the config file goes to /etc. WARNING: Never enable the SUID or SGID bits in Clam AntiVirus binaries.



Tomasz Kojm 2004-10-17