How To Install python3-nagiosplugin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-nagiosplugin on Kali Linux.

What is python3-nagiosplugin

python3-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 3 version of the package.

There are three methods to install python3-nagiosplugin 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 python3-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 python3-nagiosplugin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-nagiosplugin

Install python3-nagiosplugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-nagiosplugin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-nagiosplugin

Install python3-nagiosplugin 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 python3-nagiosplugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-nagiosplugin

How To Uninstall python3-nagiosplugin on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the python3-nagiosplugin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-nagiosplugin

Uninstall python3-nagiosplugin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-nagiosplugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-nagiosplugin

Remove python3-nagiosplugin Configurations and Data

To remove python3-nagiosplugin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-nagiosplugin

Remove python3-nagiosplugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-nagiosplugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-nagiosplugin

Dependencies

python3-nagiosplugin have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• python3-nagiosplugin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-nagiosplugin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.