Hello Sean, That did it !!! Everything is working now :-)
off:~# dpkg -P nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-common (Reading database ... 43808 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nagios-text ... Removing nagios-plugins ... Purging configuration files for nagios-plugins ... Removing nagios-common ... Reloading apache configuration. Purging configuration files for nagios-common ... dpkg - warning: while removing nagios-common, directory `/usr/lib/nagios' not empty so not removed. off:~# apt-get install nagios-text Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: nagios-common nagios-plugins The following NEW packages will be installed: nagios-common nagios-plugins nagios-text 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2473kB of archives. After unpacking 7025kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package nagios-text. (Reading database ... 43316 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nagios-text (from .../nagios-text_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package nagios-plugins. Unpacking nagios-plugins (from .../nagios-plugins_1.4-6_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package nagios-common. Unpacking nagios-common (from .../nagios-common_2%3a1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1_all.deb) ... Setting up nagios-plugins (1.4-6) ... Setting up nagios-text (1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1) ... Setting up nagios-common (1.3-cvs.20050402-2.sarge.1) ... Reloading apache configuration. Adding password for user nagiosadmin Starting nagios: nagios. Thanks a lot and good bye, Gunther > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: 'sean finney' [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. Juli 2005 17:39 > An: Gunther Stammwitz > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#317646: nagios-common > fails to install on a (more or less) clean system > > hi gunther, > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 05:33:26PM +0200, Gunther Stammwitz wrote: > > apt-get --purge remove nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-common && > > apt-get install nagios-text Reading Package Lists... Done Building > > Dependency Tree... Done Package nagios-text is not > installed, so not > > removed Package nagios-plugins is not installed, so not removed > > Package nagios-common is not installed, so not removed > > if you've removed the packages already, i think apt will not > purge them. you can still purge them with > > dpkg -P nagios-text nagios-plugins nagios-common > > after which point i think your problem should be solved. > could you try that out? > > thanks, > sean > > -- >

