cvdupdate command not found

Introduction

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

cvdupdate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cvdupdate: command not found

Solutions to cvdupdate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cvdupdate is provided by clamav-cvdupdate package.

clamav-cvdupdate is:

cvdupdate downloads the latest ClamAV databases along with the latest database patch files.

Run this tool as often as you like, but it will only download new content if there is new content to download. If you somehow manage to download too frequently (eg: by using cvd clean all and cvd update repeatedly), then the official database server may refuse your download request, and one or more databases may go on cool-down until it’s safe to try again.

This replaces the clamdownloader.pl script formerly provided on clamav.net.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clamav-cvdupdate

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

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

sudo apt -y install clamav-cvdupdate

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

sudo aptitude install clamav-cvdupdate

Summary

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