How To Install nagios-plugins-basic on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-basic
on Debian 9.
What is nagios-plugins-basic
nagios-plugins-basic is:
This dummy package is provided to support the transition from nagios-plugins-basic to monitoring-plugins-basic and should be removed afterwards.
There are three methods to install nagios-plugins-basic
on Debian 9. 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-plugins-basic 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-plugins-basic
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios-plugins-basic
Install nagios-plugins-basic Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-plugins-basic
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios-plugins-basic
Install nagios-plugins-basic 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-plugins-basic
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios-plugins-basic
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-basic on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-basic
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios-plugins-basic
Uninstall nagios-plugins-basic And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios-plugins-basic
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios-plugins-basic
Remove nagios-plugins-basic Configurations and Data
To remove nagios-plugins-basic
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios-plugins-basic
Remove nagios-plugins-basic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios-plugins-basic
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios-plugins-basic
Dependencies
nagios-plugins-basic have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-basic
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.