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

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-nagios on Rocky Linux 8. nagios-plugins-nagios is Nagios Plugin - check_nagios

Introduction

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

What is nagios-plugins-nagios

Provides check_nagios support for Nagios.

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

Install nagios-plugins-nagios 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-nagios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-nagios

Install nagios-plugins-nagios 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-nagios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-nagios

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

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-nagios

nagios-plugins-nagios Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/e2e5d9a1e0ee24c1f7ce1373461fee4593502e
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nagios

References

Summary

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