How To Install nagios-plugins-contrib on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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:

• monitoring-plugins-contrib

References

• nagios-plugins-contrib website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios-plugins-contrib package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.