How To Install nagios-images on Debian 10

Learn how to install nagios-images on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nagios-images is Collection of images and icons for the nagios system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-images on Debian 10.

What is nagios-images

nagios-images is:

nagios-images contains an assortment of dfsg-free images and icons for use in the web frontend of the nagios system.

Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring and management system. It has the following features:

  • Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
  • Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
  • Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
  • Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution)
  • Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.)

There are three methods to install nagios-images on Debian 10. 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-images 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-images using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nagios-images

Install nagios-images Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install nagios-images

Install nagios-images 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install nagios-images using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nagios-images

How To Uninstall nagios-images on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove nagios-images

Uninstall nagios-images And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nagios-images and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios-images

Remove nagios-images Configurations and Data

To remove nagios-images configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nagios-images

Remove nagios-images configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nagios-images configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios-images

Dependencies

nagios-images have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-images package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.