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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!

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:

eloyd wrote: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.

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:
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:
and see if it's any better.

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

Did you also try:
?

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