clamav and GYachi problem

jonny_b4e · 01-12-2007, 04:55 PM

Hi everybody. I'm pretyy new to linux and i have a couple of questions/problems. First of all, my OS is a slackware-based distro. So here it is:

1)When you download sources of a program, after ./configure and make, is it supposed to create a *.tgz file on the same folder?

2)I downloaded sources of clamav 0.88.7, ./configure. At first, there was an error msg: user and/or group clamav doesn;t exist. So I created them and configure ended successfully. I then entered make&&make install, and after many lines i could not understand it finished. Yet, there's no package clamav installed or created. After a search, it only created a folder somewhere in /usr. What do I do?

3)I also downloaded sources of GYachi, a supposed yahoo! based client supporting voice conference. ./configure again and then: configure:error: cannot find jasper and/or jpeg library. Are those programs supposed to be on my system but they aren't? If yes, where do i find them?

Thanks a lot.....

Berhanie · 01-12-2007, 07:10 PM

Compiling a package from source will not produce a Slackware package. Slackware packages are either official Slackware packages (made available with the distro) or else are made by third-parties (such as those at linuxpackages.net). When you make install, you are installing all the files (binaries, config files, etc) without telling the package manager about them. So, for example, you will not be able to use removepkg or upgradepkg, or any of the usual package manipulations, but instead will have to rely on the source code's own tools, such as make uninstall, which is not always there. This makes for some disorganization. It's best to use a Slackware package, either made by you or someone else.

/* Edit */
The easiest way of making a Slackware package from source is by using checkinstall from the extra/ directory. Once you have that installed, you can create a Slackware package for clamav by doing:

Code:

# ./configure
# make
# checkinstall make install

The last command (in fact, the "make install" part of it is optional) runs make install and installs the files as a Slackware package.

jonny_b4e · 01-13-2007, 04:14 PM

Berthanie, thanks a lot for the tip about checkinstall. I did that for clamav, i installed it as package yet i don't know how to run it. There's nothing on the K menu and none of the executables installed (like clamscan) do anything upon click or execute as command. Why?

tramni1980 · 01-13-2007, 04:30 PM

Go to slacky.it and download gyachi and all dependencies there listed. then install them all, and just type "gyachi" in a shell

Berhanie · 01-13-2007, 06:18 PM

Sounds like you need to read the clamav documentation. What do you want to do with clamav? clamscan is for manual scanning of files and directories. Read the man page. clamav also comes with a server/client pair (clamd/clamdscan) which is the daemonized version of clamscan; and finally there's a milter which is a nice way of scanning email, if you run a mail server. For on-access scanning, which is what I suspect you're interested in, look up clamuko or dazuko.