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System requirements

Hardware requirements

Minimum hardware requirements to be met before the installation process to run ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux properly:

processor Intel/AMD x64

700MB of free hard disk space


Software requirements

The following operating systems of 64-bit architecture are officially supported and tested:

Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS

Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS

Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9 with supported desktop environment installed.

Linux Mint 20, 21, 22


important

The latest Linux kernel for Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS/Linux Mint 21 requires gcc-12 for kernel modules compilation. See our Knowledgebase article for more information on this issue.


note

AWS kernel

Linux distributions with AWS kernel are not supported.

Supported display servers:

X11

Wayland

Supported desktop environments:

Cinnamon 5.0 and later

GNOME 3.28.2 and later

KDE

MATE

XFCE

Any locale with UTF-8 encoding.


The user interface and command list in the Terminal window are available in the following languages:

English

German

Spanish

Spanish Latin America

French

Polish

Ukrainian

Japanese

If the host OS uses an unsupported language, English is used by default.


Network prerequisites

To ensure the proper functioning of the ESET Endpoint Antivirus for Linux allow the network prerequisites listed in the Knowledgebase article.


Supported filesystems

The following filesystems are officially supported and tested:

Filesystem

Local devices

Removable devices

Network

Btrfs

 

 

FAT

 

 

VFAT

 

exFAT

 

F2FS

 

 

ext4 (version 2, version 3)

 

JFS

 

 

NTFS

 

UDF

 

 

XFS

 

 

ZFS

 

 

EncFS

 

 

FUSE (snap, appimage)

 

 

tmpfs

 

 

NFS client (version 3, version 4)

 

 

SMB (GVfs, CIFS)

 

 

SSHFS

 

 

davfs

 

 

 


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