On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, John Leach wrote: > On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 16:49 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015, John Leach wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm setting up icinga2 on an ubuntu trusty server using the icinga ppa > > > and I need to use the check_nrpe command. > > > > > > On Ubuntu (and Debian) that command is provided by the > > > nagios-nrpe-plugin package, but that package depends on nagios3 or > > > icinga, not icinga2. > > > > > > So attempting to install that package pulls in nagios3, which isn't what > > > I want. And I'm running icinga2, not icinga1 so I don't want to pull in > > > the icinga package either (which pulls in icinga-core packages etc). > > > > > > Any thoughts on how best to fix this? The icinga package is a > > > metapackage anyway - could the icinga2 package be updated to "provide" > > > icinga? This would prevent installing icinga and icinga2 at the same > > > time though. > > > > > > Or perhaps the ppa could get a newer icinga package that will be happy > > > with icinga2 being installed and not force install icinga1? > > > > > > Or worst case, perhaps include check_nrpe in an icinga2 packaqe > > > somewhere (ugly though!). > > Thats wrong. This is just a Recommend. Use apt-get --no-install-recommends > > nagios-nrpe-plugin > > > > goodness, you're right. Thanks for the clarification. > > I've somehow never come across a situation like this before - I've never > had to use --no-install-recommends! > > From the Debian docs: > > "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations. " > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html > > > Hitting this for the first time in what is a somewhat unusual > installation is a testament to how well packagers follow the policies I > think :) I removed that Recommends in newer versions of the nrpe package, I guess ubuntu doesn't have that version yet. The idea was basically right, but it didn't worked well to maintain a list of nagios compatible stuff over all releases.. Therefore it was best to remove that Recommends.
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