[Nagiosplug-devel] Problem with nagios-plugin built RPM

[Andreas Ericsson]

Brian Ipsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I'm trying to build an RPM with the nagios plugins...
> 
> Basically, what I do, is:
> 
> # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SNMP'
> # /usr/sbin/groupadd nagios
> # /usr/sbin/useradd -r -d /var/log/nagios -s /bin/sh -c "nagios" -g nagios
> nagios
> # cd /usr/src/whitebox/SOURCES
> # wget
> http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.
> 2.tar.gz
> # tar xzpf nagios-plugins-1.4.2.tar.gz *.spec
> # mv -f nagios-plugins-1.4.2/nagios-plugins.spec ../SPECS/
> # rm -Rf nagios-plugins-1.4.2
> # cd ../SPECS
> # chown 0.0 nagios-plugins.spec
> # rpmbuild -ba nagios-plugins.spec
> # rpm -Uvh ../RPMS/i386/nagios-plugins-1.4.2-1.i386.rpm
> 
> But this gives me:
> 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl(Net::SNMP) is needed by nagios-plugins-1.4-2.1.el3.rf.i386
> 
> I then check:
> 
> # perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SNMP'
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok
> Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
>   Database was generated on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:01:00 GMT
> Net::SNMP is up to date.
> 
> Why is it complaining about Net::SNMP ??
> 
> I also tried:
> 
> # rpm -qa | grep net-snmp
> 
> net-snmp-libs-5.1.2-11
> net-snmp-devel-5.1.2-11
> net-snmp-perl-5.1.2-11
> net-snmp-utils-5.1.2-11
> net-snmp-5.1.2-11
> 
> Where is the problem ??
> 

rpm -qa | grep ^perl | grep -i snmp

and you'll know. You can't mix rpm-packages with manual installations, 
or you'll run into these problems.

What you *should* have done is

	yum install nagios nagios-plugins

(or whatever's appropriate for your system). This is supposed to pull in 
the required packages for you.

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