Can anyone tell me how to install Bitdefender antivirus from terminal if it's possible? I am using Ubuntu 16.04.
2 Answers
It is possible to install BitDefender antivirus via the terminal. You need to first add the repository by doing
sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free"
Next, get and add the repository key
wget https://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc
sudo apt-key add bd.key.asc
Then
sudo apt-get update
Finally install by doing
sudo apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui
Once BitDefender is installed you can launch it with the following command:
/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdgui
Troubleshooting
If BitDefender fails or crashes when trying to update virus signatures, you can try the following steps taken from here. One additional caveat to this answer is that you may need to wait at least 1 hour from your last attempt to update using the GUI. The application warns about not checking for updates again within that time frame.
sudo touch /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64
sudo ln -fs /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so.linux-x86_64 /opt/BitDefender-scanner/var/lib/scan/bdcore.so
sudo bdscan --update
Now it may show 0 signatures. However, after your first scan, it will display the correct number of signatures.
See the Ubuntu page on this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitDefender.
It might happen that the packages repository won't be accessible for various reasons (e.g. The repository 'http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb bitdefender Release' is not signed).
The alternative is:
download and inspect http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/dists/bitdefender/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages file which would contain e.g.:
Package: bitdefender-scanner-gui
Filename: pool/non-free/b/bitdefender-scanner-gui/bitdefender-scanner-gui_1.0-3_amd64.deb
See also Depends section, which would contain e.g.:
http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/pool/non-free/b/bitdefender-scanner/bitdefender-scanner_7.6-3_amd64.deb
Download and install (with GDebi):
- http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/pool/non-free/b/bitdefender-scanner/bitdefender-scanner_7.6-3_amd64.deb
- http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/pool/non-free/b/bitdefender-common/bitdefender-common_3.1.2-1_amd64.deb
Once the Bitdefender is installed you can launch it with the following command:
/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdgui
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Unfortunately on Ubuntu 19.04
/opt/BitDefender-scanner/bin/bdgui
will crash withlibpng warning: Application jmp_buf size changed Segmentation fault (core dumped)
.– AdrianJun 18, 2019 at 21:43