clamav-config command not found

Introduction

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

clamav-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clamav-config: command not found

Solutions to clamav-config: command not found

How To Fix clamav-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu clamav-config is provided by libclamav-dev package.

libclamav-dev 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.

The package contains the needed headers and libraries for developing software using the libclamav interface.

This library can be used to develop virus scanner applications.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libclamav-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libclamav-dev.

sudo apt -y install libclamav-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libclamav-dev

Summary

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