Been handed a Red Hat Enterprise 4.x box that needs nagios plugins.

Problem: How do I download and install together with dependencies. I'm a Debian user myself, so going after the individual rpm files is driving myself and my colleague crazy. Don't really want to go down the tarball route either.

We've been under the impression that these issues must have been resolved years ago, but I can't find much help through Google.

TIA

James

Hi, I assume you don't have a support contract? Best to do would be to add the rpm repositories (https://rpmrepo.org/RPMforge). RHEL is pretty useless without support. CentOS is built off the same source but you don't need a subscription. I can highly recommend centos. To do things apt-get style use the program 'yum' i.e.:

sudo yum install PACKAGENAME

Synaptic can also be used for RPM repositories.

Rich