How To Install python-nagiosplugin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nagiosplugin on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-nagiosplugin
python-nagiosplugin is:
nagiosplugin is a Python class library which helps writing Nagios (or Icinga) compatible plugins easily in Python. It cares for much of the boilerplate code and default logic commonly found in Nagios checks, including:
- Nagios 3 Plugin API compliant parameters and output formatting
- Full Nagios range syntax support
- Automatic threshold checking
- Multiple independent measures
- Custom status line to communicate the main point quickly
- Long output and performance data
- Timeout handling
- Persistent “cookies” to retain state information between check runs
- Resume log file processing at the point where the last run left
- No dependencies beyond the Python standard library (except for Python 2.6).
This is the Python 2 version of the package.
There are three methods to install python-nagiosplugin on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python-nagiosplugin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-nagiosplugin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-nagiosplugin
Install python-nagiosplugin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-nagiosplugin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-nagiosplugin
Install python-nagiosplugin 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python-nagiosplugin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-nagiosplugin
How To Uninstall python-nagiosplugin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-nagiosplugin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-nagiosplugin
Uninstall python-nagiosplugin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-nagiosplugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-nagiosplugin
Remove python-nagiosplugin Configurations and Data
To remove python-nagiosplugin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-nagiosplugin
Remove python-nagiosplugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-nagiosplugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-nagiosplugin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-nagiosplugin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
