Working on a new CentOS7 system and no nrpe packages (solved)

Posted on October 5, 2017 by mark

Looks like CentOS7 has made a move closer to the RedHat distribution.

On existing CentOS7 systems I had build quite a while ago I installed nrpe and nagios-plugins-all from the base repository, but they are no longer available there.

The fix (thank you google search) is simply to ‘yum -y install epel-release’ and then install  nrpe and nagios-plugins-all..

I wonder what other packages have moved, these two were the only ones that affected me  directly but it was a supprise that after such a long time CentOS has decided to keep the epel repository seperate. No big issue and not really a supprise but the main differentiation between CentOS and RedHat has been that CentOS bundled the epel packages in the base repository, until now anyway.

But for those using CentOS for years it is a bit of a supprise :-)

About mark

At work, been working on Tandems for around 30yrs (programming + sysadmin), plus AIX and Solaris sysadmin also thrown in during the last 20yrs; also about 5yrs on MVS (mainly operations and automation but also smp/e work). At home I have been using linux for decades. Programming background is commercially in TAL/COBOL/SCOBOL/C(Tandem); 370 assembler(MVS); C, perl and shell scripting in *nix; and Microsoft Macro Assembler(windows).
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