general inquiry of method of install for Nagios 3.1.2 on Fedora 9 system

[Mark Gius]

Because Nagios comes with a specfile, building Nagios only requires that 
you install the appropriate development libraries and the rpm build 
tools.  Then it becomes a matter of rpmbuild -ba nagios.spec.  IIRC this 
builds the plugin rpm as well. 

I just checked and I'm running libgd-2.0, so you should be able to build 
the RPM just fine (as long as you install all of the necessary 
development libraries).

-Gius

Natalie Aloi wrote:
> Is building an rpm difficult? I haven't really researched doing that. 
> My reluctance to going with 3.0.6 is that the build I have requires 
> libgd.so.1.8 but I have libgd.so.2.0 so I don't want to uninstall 
> libgd.so.2.0 just to install an older libgd.
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* Mark Gius [mailto:mgius at createspace.com]
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, July 1, 2009 01:21 PM
>     *To:* 'Natalie Aloi'
>     *Cc:* 'Nagios Users Mail-list'
>     *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] general inquiry of method of install
>     for Nagios 3.1.2 on Fedora 9 system
>
>     My recommendation is to use the 3.0.6 RPM you found, or to build
>     your own RPM using the specfile that comes with the source
>     distribution.  Building your own RPM means that Nagios is easier
>     to install/uninstall, and you can reuse the RPM pretty easily.
>
>     I'm using my own RPM of 3.0.6 and I've had no problems with it.  I
>     don't know what improvements are taking place in the 3.1 branch
>     however.
>
>     -Gius
>
>     Natalie Aloi wrote:
>>     Hi, I am trying to get nagios 3.x to install - I was attempting
>>     to upgrade from 2.11 but found too many problems, so I am
>>     attempting a new install on a different server - this way no
>>     conflicts, etc. I am relatively new to unix/linux so bear with
>>     me. I have installed fedora 9 on  a server and am kind of
>>     familiar with yum and rpm which sure makes life easier for the
>>     newbie   But I can't seem to locate an rpm for the latest release
>>     of Nagios ver 3.1.2. My question is what problems, if any, might
>>     I encounter just installing the tar ball for nagios and the
>>     plugins to get nagios 3.x up & operational vs using an older
>>     version of nagios 3.0.6 that has an rpm file associated with it?
>>      
>>     thanks!
>>     Natalie
>>      
>>     Network Operations Center Manager
>>     Experis Data Center LLC
>>     8209 Valley Pike
>>     PO Box 535
>>     Middletown,VA 22645
>>     phone:540-869-8702
>>     cell:240-988-3267
>>     fax:540-869-8710
>>     e-mail:naloi at experisdatacenters.com
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