Ubuntu – How to install nagios-plugins-extra on Ubuntu 18.04

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I have servers running on Ubuntu 14.10 and have started upgrading them to 18.04. However, my installation playbooks (Ansible) are failing on the apt install of nagios-plugins-extra.

I looked for this package and it looks like it's only available for Trusty and Xenial, not for Bionic.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&keywords=nagios-plugins-extra&searchon=names

The description for Xenial says 'transactional dummy package', does this mean it's now part of the regular nagios-plugins?

Best Answer

All of the nagios-plugins-<whatever> packages have been renamed to monitoring-plugins-<whatever>.

See the Ubuntu package search.

There is no monitoring-plugins-extra, because the contents of that package were merged into monitoring-plugins-standard.

(The only plugins that were in nagios-plugins-extra, as of 14.04 anyway, were check_fping and check_game.)