Information

The Linux version of Endpoint Protection uses a command-line interface. There is no graphical user interface currently available.
Installation and management requires root access.
If you're using an old or obscure Linux Distro, see System Requirements and On Access Scanning Support.

Running the installation

Download the installation package from the Defense.com Control Panel.
Open your preferred terminal emulator and navigate to the directory you downloaded the installation package to. For example:
```
cd ~/Downloads
```
Extract the files from the installation package using the command:
```
tar -xf ./installer.tar
```
Make the installer file executable by running the command:
```
chmod +x ./installer
```
Run the installer file:
```
./installer
```
If you get the error message "missing login password" when running this installer, try running it as sudo: sudo ./installer

Thats's it! Endpoint Security has been installed. The service starts automatically and you can start scanning your system.

System Requirements

CPU	RAM	Disk Space	Operating System/Distro	Supported Filesystems
For Workstations: Intel® Pentium compatible processors, 2 GHz or faster For Smart Devices: Intel® Pentium compatible processors, 800 MHZ or faster For Servers: Minimum - Intel® Pentium compatible processors, 2.4 GHz Recommended - Intel® Xeon multi-core CPU, 1.86 GHz or faster	Depends on what features are enabled in our installer package.	600MB	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or higher Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS 6.0 or higher SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 or higher OpenSUSE Leap 42.x Fedora 25 or higher Debian 8.0 or higher Oracle Linux 6.3 or higher Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 or higher Amazon Linux 2	AFS BTRFS ext2 ext3 ext4 FAT FAT16 FAT32 VFAT exFAT NTFS UFS ISO 9660 / UDF NFS CIFS/SMB VXFS XFS

On-access scanning support

On-access scanning is available for all supported guest operating systems. On Linux systems, on-access scanning support is provided in the following situations:

Kernel Versions	Linux distributions	On-access requirements
2.6.38 or higher*	Red Hat Enterprise Linux /CentOS 6.0 or higher Ubuntu 14.04 or higher SUSE Linux Enterprise Server11 SP4 or higher OpenSUSE Leap 42.x Fedora 25 or higher Debian 9.0 or higher Oracle Linux 6.3 or higher Amazon Linux AMI 2016.09 or higher	Fanotify (kernel option) must beenabled.
2.6.38 or higher	Debian 8	Fanotify must be enabled and set to enforcing mode and then the kernel package must be rebuilt.
2.6.32 - 2.6.37	CentOS 6.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x	Bitdefender provides support via DazukoFS with prebuilt kernelmodules.
All other kernels	All other supported systems	The DazukoFS module must be manually compiled. For more details, refer to Manually compile the DazukoFS module