faq-uninstall.md

Uninstalling ClamAV

If you installed from source

`./configure`

`sudo make uninstall`

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If you installed from packages

• Debian:

  dpkg --remove clamav*

• Redhat/Fedora:

  yum remove clamav*

• Mandriva:

  urpme clamav

• Gentoo:

  emerge -C clamav

• FreeBSD:

  pkg delete clamav

• OpenBSD:

  pkg_delete clamav

• NetBSD:

  pkgin remove clamav

• Slackware:

  /etc/rc.d/rc.clamav stop; removepkg clamav

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Caveats

Make sure that you haven’t got old libraries (libclamav.so) lying around your filesystem. You can verify it using:

    $ ldd `which freshclam`

Also make sure there is really only one version of ClamAV installed on your system:

`$ whereis freshclam`

`$ whereis clamscan`