nagios Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SNMP)

Question

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.

Solution 1

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.

Solution 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.

Comments

[Scott Pack]

Is the base nagios package already installed, and from which repository did you install it?

[Mech]

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?

[Mech]

I got that the package perl-Net-SNMP is not available. I'm using RPMForge is there another repo I should be using?

[MastaJeet]

@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

[MastaJeet]

yum repolist | grep rpmforge: rpmforge RHEL 5 - RPMforge.net - dag enabled: 10,152