Setting epel repository in Linux/Centos and installing ClamAV.

To setup epel on centos, we need to download the epel installation rpm and install it.

Make sure you have wget installed in you linux/Centos.

To check if wget is installed or not.

From the hash prompt

$ rpm -qa | grep wget

should get result as...

wget-1.11.4-3.el5_8.2

If the above command result nothing then install wget first.

$ yum -y install wget.

once wget is installed the setup the epel repo

$ wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

$ rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm.

you are done.

For installing ClamAV.

$ sudo yum search clamav

Select the packeges 

$ sudo yum -y install clamav, clamav-db etc...

after installation is completed run the update command

$ freshclam