Because Nagios comes with a specfile, building Nagios only requires that
you install the appropriate development libraries and the rpm build
tools. Then it becomes a matter of rpmbuild -ba nagios.spec. IIRC this
builds the plugin rpm as well.
I just checked and I'm running libgd-2.0, so you should be able to build
the RPM just fine (as long as you install all of the necessary
development libraries).
-Gius
Natalie Aloi wrote:
Is building an rpm difficult? I haven't really researched doing that.
My reluctance to going with 3.0.6 is that the build I have requires
libgd.so.1.8 but I have libgd.so.2.0 so I don't want to uninstall
libgd.so.2.0 just to install an older libgd.
-----Original Message-----
*From:* Mark Gius [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 01:21 PM
*To:* 'Natalie Aloi'
*Cc:* 'Nagios Users Mail-list'
*Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] general inquiry of method of install
for Nagios 3.1.2 on Fedora 9 system
My recommendation is to use the 3.0.6 RPM you found, or to build
your own RPM using the specfile that comes with the source
distribution. Building your own RPM means that Nagios is easier
to install/uninstall, and you can reuse the RPM pretty easily.
I'm using my own RPM of 3.0.6 and I've had no problems with it. I
don't know what improvements are taking place in the 3.1 branch
however.
-Gius
Natalie Aloi wrote:
Hi, I am trying to get nagios 3.x to install - I was attempting
to upgrade from 2.11 but found too many problems, so I am
attempting a new install on a different server - this way no
conflicts, etc. I am relatively new to unix/linux so bear with
me. I have installed fedora 9 on a server and am kind of
familiar with yum and rpm which sure makes life easier for the
newbie But I can't seem to locate an rpm for the latest release
of Nagios ver 3.1.2. My question is what problems, if any, might
I encounter just installing the tar ball for nagios and the
plugins to get nagios 3.x up & operational vs using an older
version of nagios 3.0.6 that has an rpm file associated with it?
thanks!
Natalie
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