clamav-milter command not found

Introduction

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

clamav-milter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clamav-milter: command not found

Solutions to clamav-milter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clamav-milter is provided by clamav-milter package.

clamav-milter 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 ClamAV milter for use with sendmail. It can be configured to be run either standalone, or using clamav-daemon.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clamav-milter

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

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

sudo apt -y install clamav-milter

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

sudo aptitude install clamav-milter

Summary

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