clamdtop command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix clamdtop command not found error message

Introduction

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

clamdtop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clamdtop: command not found

Solutions to clamdtop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clamdtop is provided by clamav-daemon package.

clamav-daemon 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 the daemon featuring:

  • fast, multi-threaded daemon;
  • easy integration with MTA’s;
  • support for on-access scanning;
  • remote scanning;
  • able to be run supervised by daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clamav-daemon

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

You can also use apt command to install clamav-daemon.

sudo apt -y install clamav-daemon

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

sudo aptitude install clamav-daemon

Summary

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