Clamav-0.92 on OS2007/Bora for Nokia N800

This page is trying to explain, as simply as possible, how to install clamav-0.92 on Nokia N800 OS2007. If you don't know which os you have got, go to the "configuration panel" in Tools menu, and select "About product". A window gives you all informations about your Nokia N800 Internet Tablet, and above all your os edition.

Prerequisites (read this before all) At this time there is no GUI for using clamav on N800. So, all operations are made on X Terminal. To install it, you need to configure two repositories on the applications manager with the following parameters, Web Address - http://repository.maemo.org/extras/, Distribution - bora, Components - free non-free for the first one. And for the second, Web Address - http://repository.maemo.org/, Distribution - bora, Components - free non-free. The name of the application is osso-xterm. Install it.

You will need root access. To do this, install openssh application and remember the password you enter for root connection. To connect as root, enter "ssh root@localhost" command on a X Terminal session and enter the password.

Another repository is required: the repository of Nokia Research Centre Cambridge at Web Address - http://repository.nrcc.noklab.com/, Distribution - bora, Components - extras. You will install, as root, the libgmp3-dev package with "apt-get install libgmp3-dev" command. This wil install two others libraries, libgmpxx4 and libgmp3c2.

After this you can download clamav_0.92-1_armel.deb.

Installation

When you click on the link above, the N800 ask you if you want to open or save the file. If you click on the open button, this will launch automatically the applications manager and ask you if you want to install it. Of course, you want.

If all goes well, clamav wil be installed without problems. But this is not the end. By default, databases viruses are old and located on /usr/var/lib/clamav directory (this is a personal choice, you can modify it by editing clamd.conf et freshclam.conf), then you need to refresh them.

You need to create the /usr/var/lib/clamav directory with root account and modify its owner by typing "chown user:users /usr/var/lib/clamav" as root. You can now refresh the virus database by typing freshclam as user (exit from your root session).

On my N800 clamscan, clamd and freshclam work well (on X Terminal). There have been some reports about other similar platforms.

-- RiviereAlix - 23 Jan 2008