Installation
Avira GmbH
Avira AntiVir MailGate
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X
Finally, you can start AntiVir MailGate:
/usr/lib/AntiVir/avmailgate start
4.4
Reinstalling and Uninstalling AntiVir
You can re-launch the
install
script at any time. There are several possible
situations:
•
Install a new version (upgrade). The installation script checks the previous
version and installs the necessary new components.
The configuration settings already made are not overwritten, but inherited
(see
Configuration
– Page 26).
•
Later installation of some components.
•
Activating or deactivating the automatic start of Avira Updater or AntiVir
MailGate.
Reinstalling Avira AntiVir MailGate
The steps are the same in all cases:
X
Open the directory where you unpacked AntiVir MailGate. For example:
cd /tmp/antivir-mailgate-prof-<version>/
X
Type:
./install
The installation script runs as described above.
Modified binaries will not run.
For example, if binaries are prelinked: Either disable prelinking or add
/usr/lib/AntiVir as an excluded prelink path in /etc/prelink.conf.
Starting with version 3.0.0, a new scanner backend is used. Old scanner specific
configuration options, that are not known to MailGate, must be moved from
/etc/avmailgate.conf
to the scanner specific configuration file
/etc/avmailgate-scanner.conf.
It is highly recommended that you perform an update after installation, to ensure up-to-
date protection. This can be done by running:
/usr/lib/AntiVir/avupdate --product=MailGate
For more details on updating, see
Updates
– Page 60.
