Installation And Launch; Distributions Currently Supported; Using Rpm, Deb Packages - AVG 8.5 ANTI-VIRUS - LINUX-FREEBSD REV 85.2 User Manual

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Installation and Launch

AVG 8.5 Anti-Virus for Linux/FreeBSD installation packages are provided as rpm
or deb files, and as tar.gz or sh archives.
Please note that upgrading the old AVG for Linux/FreeBSD version 7 to the new
version 8 is not possible. You will have to uninstall AVG 7 manually (via
/opt/grisoft/avg7/bin/uninstall.sh) prior to installing AVG 8.

2.1. Distributions Currently Supported

Distribution
Any Linux distributions
supporting the rpm
packager utility
Any Linux distributions
using the Debian
packaging system
Any standard Linux
distribution including
those not supporting deb
or rpm installations
(Slackware, Gentoo etc.);
recommended installation
package
Any Linux distribution
including those not
supporting deb or rpm
installations (Slackware,
Gentoo etc.)
FreeBSD
Package name consist of: avg85{operating system}ms-{release}-{version}.
{platform}.{package type}. Example: avg85lms-r285-a2582.i386.tar.gz
Please note that apart from the i386 platform, amd64 is currently also supported.
AVG 8.5 Anti-Virus for Linux/FreeBSD © 2008 Copyright AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. All rights reserved.
Installation package
avg85lms-{release}-{version}.{platform}.rpm
avg85lms-{release}-{version}.{platform}.deb
avg85lms-{release}-{version}.{platform}.sh
avg85lms-{release}-{version}.{platform}.tar.gz
avg85fms-{release}-{version}.{platform}.tar.gz
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