How To Install nagios-plugins-contrib on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib on Debian 12.
What is nagios-plugins-contrib
nagios-plugins-contrib is:
nagios-plugins-contrib was renamed to monitoring-plugins-contrib.
This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.
There are three methods to install nagios-plugins-contrib on Debian 12. 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-contrib 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-contrib using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
Install nagios-plugins-contrib Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nagios-plugins-contrib using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
Install nagios-plugins-contrib 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-contrib using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nagios-plugins-contrib
How To Uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nagios-plugins-contrib package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nagios-plugins-contrib
Uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nagios-plugins-contrib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios-plugins-contrib
Remove nagios-plugins-contrib Configurations and Data
To remove nagios-plugins-contrib configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nagios-plugins-contrib
Remove nagios-plugins-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nagios-plugins-contrib configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios-plugins-contrib
Dependencies
nagios-plugins-contrib have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
