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Mech
Asked: 2010-12-21 09:34:41 +0800 CST

nagios Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SNMP)

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I have an odd problem. I'm trying to install nagios NRPE but it keeps failing with 

nagios-plugins-1.4.15-2.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SNMP) is needed by package nagios-plugins-1.4.15-2.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)

The package 1:net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1.i386 is already installed and latest version.

Thoughts?

The environment is Centos 5.5 with Cpanel 11 installed.

nagios nrpe centos5

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just in case someone else is having issues with this: check your yum exclude list here: /etc/yum.conf

    with Cpanel installed lots of packages are getting excluded. So for the one-off install of nagios-nrpe remove perl* from the list of excluded packages, run 'yum install nagios-nrpe.x86_64' and add it back after installation.

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  2. You are confusing net-snmp-perl and perl-Net-SNMP. They are not the same. The file lists do not overlap.

    perl-Net-SNMP provides perl(Net::SNMP)

    Details: net-snmp-perl is the perl interface to the net-snmp (aka ucsd snmp) library. perl-Net-SNMP is completely independent of (and does not require) the net-snmp library.

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  4. A summary of the answers here with added commands:

    1. With cPanel, remove perl* from exclude in /etc/yum.conf
    2. Install perl-Net-SNMP not net-snmp-perl (from rpmforge: http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/FAQ.php#B)
    3. Put perl* back in /etc/yum.conf in exclude

    Copy paste command line fu:

        cp /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.bak-`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`
    sed -i 's/perl\* //g' /etc/yum.conf
    yum install -y perl-Net-SNMP nagios-nrpe
    sed -i 's/php\*/perl\* php\*/g' /etc/yum.conf
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  5. I have had similiar problems:

    --> Package fping.x86_64 0:2.4b2-7.el5 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: nagios-plugins = 1.4.15-2.el5 for package: nagios-plugins-load

    The origin of the problem was an additional package repository, in my case 'Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux'. I have created an extra configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo

    To check if you have the same problem, execute the following command

    yum list nagios\*
[...]
* epel: mirror.fraunhofer.de
Installed Packages
nagios-plugins.x86_64  1.4.15-2.el5   installed
[...]
Available Packages
nagios-plugins.x86_64  1.4.15-2.el5.rf     dag <-- the additional repository!
[...]

    The solution is to exclude this package in the dag-repository. You can do this on repository level.

    Add the following line to the additional repository configuration file(/etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo):

     exclude=nagios*

    Note: If you want to exclude more packages just add them to the line with a space between different excludes.

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