clamtk(1)

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version 6.18 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 clamtk(1) — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, so you found clamtk(1) in your terminal and you're like "what is this diva" — don't worry, I got you. This is the manual page for clamtk, and by the end of this you're gonna be scanning files like it's nothing. Let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

clamtk — Graphical user interface (gui) for Clam AntiVirus

Like, the whole point. A GUI. For antivirus. For you. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

clamtk
clamtk file
clamtk directory

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's simple, she's clean, she's serving minimalism 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So, clamtk is a frontend for Clam AntiVirus. That's the whole vibe. It's designed to be a lightweight, easy-to-use, on-demand GUI virus scanner — which is the technical way of saying it only scans when you ask it to, it doesn't hover in the background judging you (unlike some software we know 😭).

And the way she's built?? clamtk is written using Perl, Python, and the Gtk+ libraries. A multilingual icon. We stan a polyglot ✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

okay so here's the tea:

There are currently no commandline options except for those noted in the synopsis. And honestly? There's no point in commandline options since one can use clamscan for that. She said "I'm a GUI, go bother the CLI if you want flags" 💀

But — and this is the fun part — clamtk does accept a file or directory as an argument, so one can right-click on it to have the object scanned. That's the moment. That's the main character energy. 🫶

  • clamtk file — pass it a file, it scans the file
  • clamtk directory — pass it a directory, it scans the directory
  • Plugins — these exist to add context menu functionality to file managers such as Files, Dolphin, Thunar, and others 🔥
ngl the right-click integration is the sleeper hit here. nobody talks about it and it's literally iconic.

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

heads up bestie, you may have to edit freshclam.conf and clamd.conf prior to attempting signature updates. Yes, before. Not after. Before. 🙈

See your distribution's documentation for more — every distro does its own little thing and I'm not gonna pretend otherwise.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole friend group 🫶 go say hi to them too.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

clamtk was written by © Dave M <dave.nerd@gmail.com>, 2004-2023.

twenty years of antivirus GUI service. that's not a phase, that's a legacy. 💜

🍓 BUGS 🍓

For information and downloads:

  • Gitlab wiki page.

For bugs, requests, and questions, use one of the following sites:

  • Github Issues page.
  • Gitlab issues page.
  • Launchpad issues page.

See the README.md, DISCLAIMER.md, and LICENSE for more information.

fr fr go read those files before you file a bug. they're short. you got this. 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little manual was brought to you by Dave M., dated 6 May 2023, and it's the clamtk(1) page — version and source and all that cute paperwork, folded into this very sign-off just for you. now go scan something. mwah 💖✨🎀

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