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Hi,
we are unable to install NRPE client for Amazon Linux. Its does says "Amazon is not currently supported. Please use either Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, CloudLinux, SUSE Enterprise, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, or Debian.". Please help with installing.

[root@vpss10 ec2-user]# wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ent.tar.gz
--2018-09-19 09:57:06-- https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ent.tar.gz
Resolving assets.nagios.com (assets.nagios.com)... 72.14.181.71, 2600:f03c:91ff:fedf:b821
Connecting to assets.nagios.com (assets.nagios.com)|72.14.181.71|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7108173 (6.8M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz’

linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz 100%[==========================================================================================================>] 6.78M 1.85MB/s in 5.1s

2018-09-19 09:57:12 (1.34 MB/s) - ‘linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz’ saved [7108173/7108173]

[root@vpss10 ec2-user]# tar xzf linux-nrpe-agent.tar.gz
[root@vpss10 ec2-user]#
[root@vpss10 ec2-user]# cd linux-nrpe-agent
[root@vpss10 linux-nrpe-agent]# ./fullinstall
Amazon is not currently supported. Please use either Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, CloudLinux, SUSE Enterprise, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, or Debian.

Thanks

This linux agent install currently doesn't support Amazon Linux.

I'm not 100% sure but I believe the steps would be the same as the CentOS from the source install documentation here
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=515