How To Install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nagios-plugins-check-updates

A Nagios plugin to check if Red Hat or Fedora system is up-to-date.

We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-check-updates.

Install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins-check-updates using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-check-updates

Install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nagios-plugins-check-updates using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-check-updates

How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-check-updates package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-check-updates

nagios-plugins-check-updates Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_updates
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/Changes
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/README.md
/usr/share/doc/nagios-plugins-check-updates/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/check_updates.1.gz

References

• nagios-plugins-check-updates website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.