Preparing to install the Kaspersky application

Before installing the Kaspersky application, you need to do the following:

• Make sure your device meets the hardware and software requirements of the application.
• Make sure you do not have third-party antivirus software or one of the following applications installed on your device:
  • Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Linux.
  • Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Linux Nodes.
  • Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity for Networks.
  • Kaspersky Embedded Systems Security for Linux.
• Make sure that the Perl interpreter 5.10 or later is installed on your device.
• Make sure the semanage utility is installed in the system. If the utility is not installed, install the policycoreutils-python or policycoreutils-python-utils package, depending on the package manager.
• On devices with operating systems that do not support fanotify technology, make sure that the following are installed:
  • Packages for compiling applications and running tasks (gcc, binutils, glibc, glibc-devel, make)
  • Package with operating system kernel header files that are needed to compile Kaspersky modules
• To use the Web Threat Protection component, you need to install the iptables package on your device.
• For the application to run correctly, make sure that the root account is the owner of the following directories and that only the owner has the right to write to them: /var, /var/opt, /var/opt/kaspersky, /var/log/kaspersky, /opt, /opt/kaspersky, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/lib64.