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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.

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  • Is the base nagios package already installed, and from which repository did you install it? Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 18:59

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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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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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  • I got that the package perl-Net-SNMP is not available. I'm using RPMForge is there another repo I should be using? Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 22:00
  • @mech-software No, it is in rpmforge: yum info perl-Net-SNMP Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities 68 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Available Packages Name : perl-Net-SNMP Arch : noarch Version : 5.2.0 Release : 1.2.el5.rf Size : 96 k Repo : rpmforge Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 23:14
  • yum repolist | grep rpmforge: rpmforge RHEL 5 - RPMforge.net - dag enabled: 10,152 Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 23:16
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install it from here

http://packages.sw.be/perl-Net-SNMP/

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  • This is a dependency nightmare, I cant install that without other modules that are "already" installed. Can't I update a repo or something and do this with yum? Commented Dec 20, 2010 at 18:20
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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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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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