F-Prot Antivirus with Web Interface
Posted by Admin on October 14th, 2006
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Preparing Your system
sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev checkinstall
Now you need to downloaf F-port antivirus for linux workstations package from here in to /usr/local/src/ folder or any other folder.
This will download the F-Prot Antivirus Version 4.6.6
sudo dpkg -i fp-linux-ws.deb
This will install the F-Port antivirus and you can see this in the following screen
F-Port Antivirus Frontend (XFPORT)
XFPROT is a graphical frontend to the F-Prot Antivirus(TM) for Linux
Download the latest version from here
sudo wget http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot/xfprot-1.16.tar.gz
sudo tar xzvf xfprot-1.16.tar.gz
cd xfprot-1.16
sudo ./configure --with-sudo --autodetect --without-debug --with-install-dir=/usr/local
sudo make
sudo checkinstall
Once this finishes the debian package creation you should see the following message
Done. The new package has been installed and saved to /usr/local/src/xfprot-1.16/xfprot_1.16-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i xfprot_1.16-1_i386.deb
This will complete the installation of xfprot
Now you need to create a new application menu for F-port antivirus for this you need to follow this
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/fprot.desktop
add the following lines and save the file
[Desktop Entry]
Name=F-Prot
Comment=Anti-Virus Application
Exec=xfprot
Icon=/usr/local/xfprot/icons/antivirus-48×48.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;System;
Now you need to open F-prot application from Applications—>System Tools—>F-prot you can see this in the following screen
First time it will show you the license document here you need to tick the check box next to i agree and click ok
You can see the F-Prot antivirus Frontend in the following screen you can use for scanning,running updates etc
Uninstalling F-Prot Antivirus
sudo dpkg -r xfprot
sudo dpkg -r fp-linux-ws.deb
December 14th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
i am not installed
configure: too many arguments
error code, where is problem
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:04 pm
You pasted this line from this page:
sudo ./configure –with-sudo –autodetect –without-debug –with-install-dir=/usr/local
you need to substitute – with –
sudo ./configure –with-sudo –autodetect –without-debug –with-install-dir=”/usr/local”
December 23rd, 2006 at 8:11 pm
The website mangels the double dash to a single a dash.
substitute – with – -
December 24th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
i have corrected this in main article
May 1st, 2008 at 8:31 am
Installed fine and have icon, but will not open. What did I do wrong? Or is this a bug? How can I fix?