NRPE Transaction Error During Install

[anauleau]

Hello Everyone,

I am trying to install the NRPE Plugin for Nagios.

when I run:

sudo yum --enablerepo=epel -y install nrpe

I receive this error:

Transaction check error:
file /etc/nagios from install of nagios-nrpe-2.14-1.el6.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package nagios-common-3.5.1-1.8.amzn1.x86_64
file /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins from install of nagios-nrpe-2.14-1.el6.rf.x86_64 conflicts with file from package nagios-common-3.5.1-1.8.amzn1.x86_64

I've tried to get around it, but have had no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[eloyd]

So you're running in AWS EC2 space, which means you have their repositories already. You should be able to just install from their repositories:

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sudo yum install nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe
sudo chkconfig nrpe on

[anauleau]

So you're running in AWS EC2 space, which means you have their repositories already. You should be able to just install from their repositories:

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sudo yum install nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe
sudo chkconfig nrpe on

Still get the same error, which is why I tried multiple repositories.

[eloyd]

I'll be honest - I've never installed Nagios from packages before, but I've done a lot of work on AWS EC2 (in fact, you should come to the Nagios World Conference in October [see my signature] and come to my talk on Running Nagios on AWS EC2!!)

So I take it at some point you installed nagios-common? Did you also install the nagios package? I just tried the following on a new AWS EC2 instance and had no problem:

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sudo yum install nagios nagios-common nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe

I'm not going to try to figure out why it's not working - instead, I'm going to suggest a brute force fix (though I would REALLY suggest deleting the instance and starting over if possible). Try adding "--skip-broken" to your yum command:

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sudo yum install nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe

and see if it's any better.

[anauleau]

Tried the --skip-broken, didn't change anything. I also tried "yum update" and "yum clean all" still no success.

[eloyd]

Did you also try:

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sudo yum install nagios nagios-common nagios-plugins-all nagios-plugins-nrpe nrpe

?

[tmcdonald]

@anauleau, have you tried eloyd's suggestion yet?