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

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

Introduction

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

What is nagios-plugins-icmp

Provides check_icmp support for Nagios.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install nagios-plugins-icmp

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

sudo yum -y install nagios-plugins-icmp

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

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

sudo dnf remove nagios-plugins-icmp

nagios-plugins-icmp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/405d9f57a68c692f9a8443ffa948e68ae9fc2c
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_icmp

References

Summary

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