Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?
Tony Arnold
tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Mon Sep 23 10:23:08 UTC 2013
On 23/09/13 11:11, Lanoxx wrote:
>
> On 19/09/13 13:30, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:26:42AM +0100, Chris Green 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?
>> /var/log/apt/term.log may be helpful.
>>
> Aptitude has the parameters why and why-not, you can use them to
> determine why something got installed on your system, e.g.:
>
> aptitude why <packageName>
>
> $ aptitude why firefox
> i xul-ext-unity Depends firefox (>= 10.0)
>
> As far as I know calmav is not a standard package in the ubuntu
> repositories, so I must have come from some repository you have manually
> added.
It is available in the standard repositories. It's not installed by
default AFAIK.
Synaptic shows a number of packages that depend on clamav including
kmail, moodle, mediawiki, dansguardian plus some others.
Regards,
Tony.
>
>
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