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I suspect that this has already been covered, but I can't find a solution
I keep getting these messages in my syslog:
May 27 05:08:47 debian freshclam[450]: WARNING: Local version: 0.99.4 Recommended version: 0.100.0
May 27 05:08:47 debian freshclam[450]: DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav
I see that the latest version is listed in http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/clamav/ as clamav-daemon_0.100.0+dfsg-0+deb8u1_i386.deb etc, but I don't seem to be able to install this version using apt-get. Using the updates repository hasn't helped.
Can anybody help?
clamav should stay fairly current through point-release upgrades and stable-updates repo. Notice that I've said "fairly". But before that, you should give more info about your system version.
Apologies for lack of info - my installation is pretty much unadulterated Stretch. I'm using it for a small office and don't want any instability/glitches. The notice about clamav being out of date has been coming up for the last few months.
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don't want any instability/glitches. The notice about clamav being out of date has been coming up for the last few months.
It's apparently a problem that has been coming up for a lot of years, not months. Debian stable doesn't get new versions often, and if it does they usually come through backports. The security fixes are imported from the new version, but the version number stays the same to prevent instability/glitches.
You don't want to beta test virus software, or run it on stable without it being tested do you?
Robert_S wrote:Is this likely to wreck my system in the future? - I note that there are a few other new packages that get installed eg.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
clamav clamav-base clamav-freshclam libclamav7 libjson-c3 libpcre2-8-0 libtfm1
Likely? Hard to say. Possible? Definitely yes. Imagine from your example that another application wants to use libjson-c3 but needs the Stretch version. Broken!
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