I actually fixed this by installing RPMforge, which just so happens to aim at DAG repository, and then all yum commands to install nagios worked great. That howto on dag just shows the basics of yum really, which i'd kind of read in depth prior to posting. From it, and other documentation, it was hard to make the connect that "installing rpmforge would enable yum to talk to dag", and end up with a yum.repos.d that had these entries: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2364 Feb 16 18:27 CentOS-Base.repo -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 684 Jun 5 02:46 mirrors-rpmforge -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 416 Jun 5 02:46 rpmforge.repo yum.repos.d (END) So for "installing nagios via yum", and/or "enabling the dag repository", the step-by-step for a 64 bit Centos 3.4 box is: rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.4-1.el4.rf.x86_64.rpm yum install nagios-nrpe Yum accesses the proper repository, and voila, happiness is acheived. Now for the fun part of adapting all of the 32 bit Nrpe checks to 64 bit ones. -karlski >> yum install nagios, or nagios-nrpe, or nagios-plugins, I get: >> >> "Nothing to do". as output. > > This is because nagios is not in the default repositories. > >> In wanting to add the DAG repository to my machine, the documentation >> i've >> come across seems vague. >> Can someone advise me on either of these issues? > > Have considered looking at dag's documentation about this? > >> I have come across the following HOWTO, but it kind of jumps around a >> bit, >> and the if/else logic is too hard to decipher. > > > You might consider the FAQ on dag's site. > http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B4 > > > > -- > This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone other > than the intended recipient attempting to decode this message will be > in violation of the DMCA > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >