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Installation and Uninstallation
Installation and Deinstallation
Below you can find detailed description of Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers installation, update and
uninstallation procedures in UNIX systems. You need superuser (root) privileges to perform these
operations. To get it, use the su command or sudo prefix.
If previously the product was installed from packages of other formats (for example, RPM or DEB),
ensure that they are carefully uninstalled.
Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers distribution package for UNIX systems is delivered in EPM format
(script-based distribution package with installation and uninstallation scripts and standard install/
uninstall GUIs) designed to use with ESP Package Manager (EPM). Please note that all these scripts
relate to the EPM package, not to any of the Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers components.
You can install, deinstall, and update Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers in one of the following ways:
using GUI;
using console scripts.
During installation, dependencies are supported, that is if a component installation requires other
components to be installed in the system (for example, drweb-daemon package requires drwebcommon and drweb-bases packages), they will be installed automatically.
If you install Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers to a computer where other Dr.Web products have been
previously installed from EPM packages, then at every attempt to remove a module via graphical
installer you will be prompted to remove absolutely all Dr.Web modules, including those from other
products.
Please, pay special attention to the actions you perform and selections you make during uninstallation to
avoid accidental removal of some useful components.
Installation from Distribution Package for UNIX Systems
Dr.Web for UNIX mail servers solution is distributed as a self-extracting package
drweb-mail-[product name]_[version number]~[OS name].run.
The following components are included in this distribution:
drweb-common: contains the main configuration file - drweb32.ini, libraries, documentation
and directory structure. During installation of this component, drweb user and drweb group are
created;
drweb-bases: contains Anti-virus search Engine (Dr.Web Engine) and virus databases. It
requires drweb-common package to be installed;
drweb-libs: contains common libraries for all the components of the suite;
drweb-epm6.0.2-libs: contains libraries for graphical installer and uninstaller. It requires
drweb-libs package to be previously installed;
drweb-epm6.0.2-uninst: contains files of graphical uninstaller. It requires drweb-libs
package to be previously installed;
drweb-boost147: containes common libraries for Dr.Web Agent and Dr.Web Monitor. It
requires drweb-libs package to be previously installed;
drweb-updater: contains update utility - Dr.Web Updater for Dr.Web Engine and virus
databases. It requires drweb-common and drweb-libs packages to be installed;
drweb-agent: contains Dr.Web Agent executable files and its documentation. It requires
drweb-common and drweb-boost147 packages to be installed;
drweb-agent-es: contains files required for communication between Dr.Web Agent and
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