Installing AVG Client on Linux OS

Hi, below are the detail steps on how you can install AVG  Client on linux based operating system.

Download the Installation package from AVG website in desired archive.

avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.deb
avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.rpm
avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.tar.gz

Save the installation package on the root file.

Access Linux Root terminal
When prompted, enter the administrator credentials.
in the terminal go to the root folder,

cd /root
type in “ls” to see the directory listing, now you can the installation package.

extract the insllation package. (based on the installation pacakage that you have downloaded)

DEB —  dpkg -i avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.deb
RPM — rpm -i avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.rpm
tar.gz— tar- xzvf avg85lms-rXXX-aXXXX.i386.tar.gz

type in terminal to extract the installation package, example

tar -xvzf avg85lms-r286-a2589.i386.tar.gz

After sucessfull extraction, you will have the following command:

avg85lms – r286-a2589.i386/ChangeLog

Next, you need to install the AVG Client as below:

In the root terminal, type in the following command :

cd avg85lms – r286-a2589.i386 ./install.sh

type “yes” to continue installation and “q” to exit read me (EULA)

type in “yes” again to agree with the license and “Y” to agree to install on the Operating  system.

Now it will asked you which group should AVG Client should be installed installed, Hit Enter on you keyboard to set it as the default settings.

Now you can enter the license number. (use copy and paste method)

8IS-BXNUY-XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXX

you will recieve this message “License is successfully changed”.

Next, Enable AVG client to be activated via this command :

avgctl –start
avgctl –stat (to check on the status)

Now AVG Client is sucessfully installed and running.

Good Luck in trying cheers