How To Install icinga2-build-key on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install icinga2-common

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install icinga2-common

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is icinga2-build-key and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install icinga2-build-key on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install icinga2-build-key on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install icinga2-build-key using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icinga2-common

Install icinga2-build-key on Fedora 34 using yum

Because icinga2-build-key is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install icinga2-build-key package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icinga2-common

How to upgrade (update) a single package icinga2-build-key using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like icinga2-build-key in this example you should use the following command:

yum update icinga2-common

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade icinga2-common

How to Upgrade icinga2-build-key on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update icinga2-common

How To remove icinga2-build-key from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the icinga2-build-key package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove icinga2-common

Extra info and code examples

Icinga 2 is a general-purpose monitoring application to fit the needs of any size of network. Icinga 1.x was a Nagios fork; this new generation has been rewritten from scratch in C++, with multi-threading and cluster support. Features: * all standard features of Icinga and Nagios; * much faster and more scalable than Icinga 1 and Nagios; * new, more intuitive, template-based configuration format; * monitoring services on ICMP (ping) or TCP ports (HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, etc.) by executing checks (see monitoring-plugins*); * any small script following the Nagios plugin API can be used as a check plugin; * notifications about alerts for any custom script (with examples); * native support for Livestatus and Graphite. This package provides configuration and some basic helper scripts.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install icinga2-build-key using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the icinga2-build-key from Fedora 34.

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