How To Install nagios-plugins-check-updates on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on CentOS 7.
What is nagios-plugins-check-updates
A Nagios plugin to check if Red Hat or Fedora system is up-to-date.
We can use yum or dnf to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nagios-plugins-check-updates.
Install nagios-plugins-check-updates 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-plugins-check-updates using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-check-updates
Install nagios-plugins-check-updates 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-plugins-check-updates using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-check-updates
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-check-updates on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-check-updates package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-check-updates
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-check-updates on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.