Hello,
I have Avast! for Linux Core Security 1.1.5. Is there a way to download updates on one machine, copy them to my linux machine, and have avast on this machine install them without internet access?
Thanks!
Yes, local virus definitions mirrors are supported. See the documentation:
http://files.avast.com/files/documentation/techdoc-avast-linux-en.pdf
Hmm, the wget command has become a little bit complicated, with our switch to akamai…
This should work for now:
wget -r -N -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 "http://download.ff.avast.com/lin/`uname -i`/vps/"
Awesome, thanks. I missed that file while searching, a lot of the existing documentation, forum, and web links refer to the older version.
Just to confirm, it looks like I have to set up an HTTP mirror for the avast packages downloaded by the wget command - there isn’t a way to point an Avast binary at the files on disk?
You can also copy /var/lib/avast/defs from one instance/installation to another one
(when avast is not running). But except for debuging purposes I don’t see any benefits
doing so…