clamdscan command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

clamdscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clamdscan: command not found

Solutions to clamdscan: command not found

How To Fix clamdscan: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu clamdscan is provided by clamdscan package.

clamdscan is:

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software.

This package contains clamdscan, the command line interface of the clamav daemon.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install clamdscan

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install clamdscan.

sudo apt -y install clamdscan

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install clamdscan

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix clamdscan command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.