How To Install nagios-contrib on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-contrib on CentOS 8. nagios-contrib is Eventhandlers contributed to nagios

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-contrib on CentOS 8.

What is nagios-contrib

Various contributed items used by plugins and other tools.

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

Install nagios-contrib on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install nagios-contrib

Install nagios-contrib on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install nagios-contrib

How To Uninstall nagios-contrib on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-contrib

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Summary

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