Klamav Installation Problem

[James Gray]

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 03:21, Old Rocker wrote:
> I'm trying to install the KDE gui front end to the Clam Anti-Virus
> package, Klamav, which is not yet in the ubuntu repositories.
>
> As it comes in a tarball, I first installed  build-essential, but then
> the tarball extracted to an installer script.  When clicking on that, a
> console came up and installed a gui installer, which said that I needed
> two dependencies, Dazuko and Clamav.  However, when it started up the
> installer failed with the following log entry:
>
> ***** Dazuko
> ***** Running configure (./configure)...
> checking host system type... Linux
> checking for make utility... ok (make)
> checking for C compiler... ok (cc)
> kernel source in /lib/modules/2.6.12-10-386/build... no
> kernel source in /usr/src/linux... no
> error: kernel source files not found
> ***** Return value 1
>
> Does ubuntu keep its kernel source in another place other
> than /usr/source/linux?  And how do I install Klamav?

Usually when a program wants the "kernel source" you can get away with 
installing just the "kernel headers" :)

sudo apt-get install linux-kernel-headers

...should do the trick.

Be aware also that if you're compiling a KDE application you can expect to 
install a fair few development libraries (Qt, kdelibs etc).  The development 
libraries generally have the same name as the runtime libs but with "-dev" 
suffix.

Read the "README" and/or "INSTALL" files that might have come with the tar 
ball for specific info on what the developers think is necessary.

HTH,

James
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