Cannot install Antivir

shame · 06-15-2006, 04:56 PM

When I first installed suse 10.1 I noticed Antivir on the non-oss cd but went in favour of klamav.
Well I fancied trying Antivir now but I no longer have the non-oss cd and when I try to find it in smart or yast there is only antivir-avguard listed and if I try to install that it tells me there are no installable providers of antivir for antivir-avguard.
Am I missing something? I have the non-oss/extra repos in both yast and smart.

bigrigdriver · 06-16-2006, 06:49 AM

Antivir is commercial ware (license fee required), but it is free to home users. If you install the version which comes with SuSE, that's the commercial version, and it will look for a commercial license file. If it fails to find that file, it won't work.

Go to the antivir website and download the free-for-home-users (I think it's called Antivir Workstation) version, which will also install the proper license file.

The license is good for one year, at which time you will have to renew your non-commercial license.

shame · 06-16-2006, 04:22 PM

It's not so much that it won't work, Antivir itself isn't being found in the repos but it was on the cd and I though the non-oss repos would have identical packages to the non-oss cd.
But if it does indeed need a commercial licence then it doesn't matter anyway.
Just out of interest, would the single home user licence allow me to install antivir on multiple distros using the same key since I dual boot several distros? I assume not.

bigrigdriver · 06-17-2006, 07:58 AM

I don't see why one download couldn't be installed on several machines. You download antivir-workstation-pers.tar.gz, which includes the license file. Then start installing. But, when it comes time to renew the personal use license, I don't remember if it's a downloadable file or if it's an online update. You may have to update each machine individually.