Installation instructions for F-Prot Antivirus for Linux Mail Servers

Installing using the rpm/deb packages:

To install using rpm execute this command:

rpm -Uhv /path/to/fp-linux-ms-VERSION.rpm

And to install using deb, execute this command:

dpkg -i /path/to/fp-linux-ms-VERSION.deb

Installing using the installation script:

F-Prot Antivirus tarballs now come with an installation script called install-f-prot.pl. It can be found in the directory created when extracting the tarballs. If you choose to use this script, you can skip the next step titled "Installing manually." To run the script, change to the f-prot/ directory and execute it:

tar xvfz /path/to/fp-linux-ms-VERSION.tar.gz
cd f-prot/
./install-f-prot.pl

Follow the instructions printed to the screen.

Installing manually:

Note: If upgrading from an older version of F-Prot Antivirus for Linux, run the following command (as root) before installing, to remove the older version:

rm -rf /usr/local/f-prot

The suggested installation procedure is as follows. Please substitute the word "VERSION" in the above instructions with this release's actual version number. Also note that your manual pages may be stored in a different path then /usr/share/man, and you might need to adjust it accordingly. If your system has rpm installed you can verify the location it prefers to put manual pages by executing the following.

rpm --eval "%{_mandir}"

Run these commands (as root):

cd /usr/local
tar xvfz /path/to/fp-linux-ms-VERSION.tar.gz
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot.sh bin/f-prot
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/f-protd sbin/f-protd
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/man_pages/f-protd.8 /usr/share/man/man8/
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/man_pages/f-prot.1 /usr/share/man/man1/
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/man_pages/check-updates.pl.8 /usr/share/man/man8/
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/man_pages/f-prot.so.8 /usr/share/man/man8/
ln -fs /usr/local/f-prot/man_pages/scan-mail.pl.8 /usr/share/man/man8/
chmod +x /usr/local/f-prot/f-prot
chmod +x /usr/local/f-prot/f-protd
chmod +x /usr/local/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
chmod +x /usr/local/f-prot/tools/scan-mail.pl

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