For newbies, the easiest way is to find an RPM for SuSE^?. Look in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/clamav/. Go one levels down to see if there is a newer version. On the next level choose your SuSE^? Version and Processor-Type e.g. 9.3-i386 für SuSE^? 9.3 on a i386 compatible system. The program file is about 1 MB, and the database file is about 8 MB. The program file is the most important. When you run freshclam later, it may update the database without needing to do this database ftp. But if freshclam fails, come back and get this database RPM and install it like the other.

(If you use the generic source/compile download (not SuSE^? RPM) it will default to put the programs and documentation in places that SuSE^? does not expect. Then it is hard to determine which you're really running from. Especially for a newbie to SuSE^?.)

1) ftp or wget the rpm file to a download folder on your pc.

2) Click on it, this should start a window with some information tabs. Review them if you wish.

3) Click on the "Install with YaST^?" button.

4) It may demand the CD #4 from the SuSE^? installation. Go ahead and humor it. It will pretend to install the older version, but the new one will be installed instead.

5) Open a konsole terminal window.

6) Enter su and then the root password. (I always do this out of habit. I get less gripes from the system that way.)

7) Enter freshclam. (It should update the database from the latest version. Be sure the modem/LAN is on and internet connected. If this doesn't work, go back to #1 and ftp the database.)

8) Enter cd /

9) Enter clamscan -i -r --detect-broken (This will scan every file on the system. It may take a while if you've got a lot of files. It will only report the problems found.)

For more information, enter "man clamscan" or "man freshclam". Other interesting files are /etc/clamd.conf and /etc/freshclam.conf. You can do a find on clam* to find other files that may be of interest.

An other way is to install the downloaded File via rpm.

Type rpm -Uvh clamav-version-0.1.platform.rpm

to upgrade (update) the installation.

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