nautilus-clamscan fix in maverick meerkat

Greetings my fellow Linux users! Today I found the need to perform a virus scan on a questionable image sent to me. I noticed there was a package in the repo called nautilus-clamscan which *should* have installed a new item called ‘Scan for viruses…’ in my right-click context menu while using nautilus. It would be very useful… if it actually worked. After installation, the menu item never showed up even after restarting nautilus. Here are the steps I followed to get it to work for me:

aptitude install nautilus-clamscan nautilus-actions

nautilus -q

Now when I right-click on a folder or file I have the option to run it through the clamav engine :)

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