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 18.04 LTS 64-bit
•Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS
•Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS
•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9 with supported desktop environment installed.
•Linux Mint 20, 21
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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. |
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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 |
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Btrfs |
✔ |
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FAT |
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✔ |
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VFAT |
✔ |
✔ |
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exFAT |
✔ |
✔ |
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F2FS |
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✔ |
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ext4 (version 2, version 3) |
✔ |
✔ |
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JFS |
✔ |
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NTFS |
✔ |
✔ |
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UDF |
|
✔ |
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XFS |
✔ |
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ZFS |
✔ |
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EncFS |
✔ |
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FUSE (snap, appimage) |
✔ |
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tmpfs |
✔ |
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NFS client (version 3, version 4) |
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✔ |
SMB (GVfs, CIFS) |
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✔ |
SSHFS |
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✔ |