How To Install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8

tcl-tclnagios is Library to assist with writing Nagios plugins in Tcl

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8.

What is tcl-tclnagios

A set of library functions to make it easier to write Nagios plugins in Tcl.

We can use yum or dnf to install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tcl-tclnagios.

Install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tcl-tclnagios using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tcl-tclnagios

Install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install tcl-tclnagios using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tcl-tclnagios

How To Uninstall tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tcl-tclnagios package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tcl-tclnagios

tcl-tclnagios Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclnagios
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclnagios/examples
/usr/share/doc/tcl-tclnagios/examples/check_dir
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclnagios
/usr/share/licenses/tcl-tclnagios/COPYING
/usr/share/tcl8.6/tclnagios1.3
/usr/share/tcl8.6/tclnagios1.3/nagios.tcl
/usr/share/tcl8.6/tclnagios1.3/pkgIndex.tcl

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tcl-tclnagios on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.