Cannot install Nagios-plugin-1.4.11 on Fedora

[blackmail88]

Hi guys,

i have fedora that i want to install nagios within it, i have sucefully install nagios core, but not the nagios-plugin, i always stuck on make install step which's showed me an error like following

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[root@FedoraNagios nagios-plugins-1.4.11]# make install
Making install in gl
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
make  install-am
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/gl'
Making install in lib
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
Making install in tests
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib/tests'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib/tests'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/lib'
Making install in plugins
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins'
test -z "/usr/local/nagios/libexec" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/nagios/libexec"
  /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -o yes -g yes 'check_apt' '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_apt'
/usr/bin/install -c -o yes -g yes check_apt /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_apt
/usr/bin/install: invalid user `yes'
make[2]: *** [install-libexecPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/admin/Downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

any idea ??

[mguthrie]

What user are you installing this as?

Any reason you're using a much older version of Nagios plugins? If you're installing from source the latest version is somewhere around 1.4.16.