How To Install nagios-plugins-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nagios-plugins-contrib
nagios-plugins-contrib is:
nagios-plugins-contrib was renamed to monitoring-plugins-contrib.
This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.
There are three methods to install nagios-plugins-contrib
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nagios-plugins-contrib Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-plugins-contrib
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
Install nagios-plugins-contrib Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-plugins-contrib
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
Install nagios-plugins-contrib Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-plugins-contrib
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-contrib
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios-plugins-contrib
Uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios-plugins-contrib
Remove nagios-plugins-contrib Configurations and Data
To remove nagios-plugins-contrib
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios-plugins-contrib
Remove nagios-plugins-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios-plugins-contrib
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios-plugins-contrib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.