Installing Dr.Web Security Space

To install Dr.Web Security Space, do one of the following:

1.Download the installation file, which is a universal package for Unix systems, from the Doctor Web official website. The package is supplied with installers (both graphical and console) starting depending on the environment.

2.Install Dr.Web Security Space as a set of native packages (to do that, connect to the corresponding package repository of Doctor Web).

It is recommended to install Dr.Web Security Space from a universal package on ALT 8 SP and other OSes that use outdated versions of a package manager.

 

After installing Dr.Web Security Space, the IMA/EVM subsystem of ALT 8 SP 11100-01 can issue a warning about potential integrity violation. To avoid this warning, run the following command after installing Dr.Web Security Space:

# integalert fix

ALT 8 SP 11100-02 and ALT 8 SP 11100-03 OSes are not subjected to this issue.

After installing Dr.Web Security Space using any of the methods provided in this manual, you will need to activate the license or install the key file. In addition, you can connect Dr.Web Security Space to a centralized protection server (for details, refer to the Licensing section). Until that, anti-virus protection is disabled. In addition, in some cases it is necessary to configure the basic functionality of Dr.Web Security Space, as described in the Getting Started section.

 

If a mail client (such as Mozilla Thunderbird) using IMAP to receive email messages is running, it is necessary to restart such mail client after installing the anti-virus to ensure scanning of incoming email messages.

After installing Dr.Web Security Space using any of the methods provided in this section, you can uninstall or update it if fixes for its components are available or a new version of Dr.Web Security Space is released. If required, you can also configure GNU/Linux security subsystems for correct operation of Dr.Web Security Space. If an issue with individual components occurs, you can perform their custom installation and uninstallation without uninstalling Dr.Web Security Space.