How To Install nagios-devel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-devel on CentOS 7.
What is nagios-devel
Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to email or page you when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux (and some other *NIX variants) as a background process, intermittently running checks on various services that you specify. This package provides include files that Nagios-related applications may compile against.
We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-devel on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-devel.
Install nagios-devel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install nagios-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nagios-devel
Install nagios-devel on CentOS 7 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nagios-devel
How To Uninstall nagios-devel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nagios-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nagios-devel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-devel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
