Anti-malware on IBM i installation requirements

This section describes the requirements for installing anti-malware on IBM® i.

Software requirements

You must satisfy the anti-malware on IBM i prerequisite components as described in Table 1.
Note: You can use the installation mechanism of your choice, such as yum or Open Source Package Management in IBM i Access Client Solutions to satisfy the prerequisites.
Table 1. Anti-malware for IBM i Requirements
Component Requirement
PASE for i The IBM i on Power® systems must be at the following versions:
  • IBM i Version 7.5 and 7.6.
openssl For IBM i systems:
  • 3.x
libpcre2-8-0 For IBM i systems:
  • As available with distribution
libncurses6 For IBM i systems:
  • As available with distribution
libjson-c4 For IBM i systems:
  • As available with distribution

yum example

If you choose to use yum in the PASE for i environment to install the prerequisites, you can use the following commands to perform the installation. You might need to export the PATH as shown in the example. 

$ bash
$ export PATH=$PATH:/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin
$ yum install openssl
$ yum install libpcre2-8-0
$ yum install libncurses6
$ yum install libjson-c4