How To Install nagios4-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install nagios4-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. nagios4-common is support files for nagios4

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios4-common on Debian 10.

What is nagios4-common

nagios4-common is:

Nagios is a monitoring and management system for hosts, services and networks. This package contains files needed by both the daemon and web interface.

Nagios’ features include:

  • Monitoring of network services (via TCP port, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.)
  • Plugin interface to allow for user-developed service checks
  • Contact notifications when problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or user-defined method)
  • Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events (for proactive problem resolution)
  • Web output (current status, notifications, problem history, log file, etc.)

There are three methods to install nagios4-common on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install nagios4-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install nagios4-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install nagios4-common

Install nagios4-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install nagios4-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install nagios4-common

Install nagios4-common 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 nagios4-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install nagios4-common

How To Uninstall nagios4-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the nagios4-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove nagios4-common

Uninstall nagios4-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall nagios4-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove nagios4-common

Remove nagios4-common Configurations and Data

To remove nagios4-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge nagios4-common

Remove nagios4-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove nagios4-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nagios4-common

Dependencies

nagios4-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nagios4-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.