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Hey guys,

I am new to Nagios and generally to Ubuntu and also network management so there is a lot for me to digest lol.

I am trying to build Nagios core version 4.3.4 from source on Ubuntu Desktop version 18.04. I am following the below link:

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... gJzwvD_BwE

However, I keep getting a lot of errors during installation. I found out the name of the packages are not quite right. Is it because I am using a newer version of Ubuntu? Should I try Ubuntu 17 instead of 18?

For example I am getting the below error while installing now while running the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y autoconf gcc libc6 make wget unzip apache2 php libapache2-mod-php7.0 libgd2-xpm-dev

Error --> Unable to locate libgd2-xmp-dev package. Could you please shed some lights on this? As I am new to Linux world as well I'd appreciate
the granularity in the response.

Thanks in advance,

libgd-dev appears to be the equivalent package in bionic (the docs you referenced haven't been updated for bionic yet), but I don't have an Ubuntu 18 machine to test against currently so I cannot verify that.

Give this a shot:

Thanks for your reply. It probably had to do with my Linux version being newer (2018) than my Nagios source code (2017). I have just finished building the source code on Linux 14.04 successfully and now can monitor my server.

Khooji wrote:Thanks for your reply. It probably had to do with my Linux version being newer (2018) than my Nagios source code (2017). I have just finished building the source code on Linux 14.04 successfully and now can monitor my server.

excellent, glad it is working