Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Fri Sep 20 10:32:30 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:15:36AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 20 September 2013 11:09, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:05:35AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> >> On 19 September 2013 11:26, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >> > For some reason ClamAV has recently been installed on my 12.10 system, I
> >> > guess it must be because of something I've installed recently but I
> >> > can't think what really.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have any idea what might install ClamAV as a dependency?
> >>
> >> If you try and uninstall ClamAV I think it will tell you which package wants it.
> >>
> > I just did that and it didn't take anything with it at all.
> 
> If installing something else had installed ClamAV as a necessary
> dependent then I think it would not have let you uninstall ClamAV as
> that would have broken the other package.  If ClamAV had been
> installed with another package as a "recommends" however then it would
> let you uninstall it.
> 
Yes, I think that may explain it.

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Chris Green




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