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

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

Introduction

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

What is `nagios-plugins-apt`

Provides check_apt support for Nagios.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-apt

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

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-apt

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

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-apt

nagios-plugins-apt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/4da9dcbe7c10904cba64a03ac88db2abe5beea
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_apt

References

nagios-plugins-apt website

Summary

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