Why has ClamAV just been installed on my 12.10 system?

[Colin Law]

On 23 September 2013 11:11, Lanoxx <lanoxx at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> On 19/09/13 13:30, Colin Watson wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:26:42AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
>>>
>>> For some reason ClamAV has recently been installed on my 12.10 system, I
>>> guess it must be because of something I've installed recently but I
>>> can't think what really.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea what might install ClamAV as a dependency?
>>
>> /var/log/apt/term.log may be helpful.
>>
> Aptitude has the parameters why and why-not, you can use them to determine
> why something got installed on your system, e.g.:
>
> aptitude why <packageName>
>
> $ aptitude why firefox
>  i xul-ext-unity Depends firefox (>= 10.0)
>
> As far as I know calmav is not a standard package in the ubuntu
> repositories, so I must have come from some repository you have manually
> added.

I think it is in Ubuntu repo
$ apt-cache policy clamav
clamav:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1.13.04.1
  Version table:
     0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1.13.04.1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main
i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/main
i386 Packages
     0.97.7+dfsg-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main i386 Packages

Colin