nagios-plugins software package provides Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems (metapackage), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install nagios-plugins
nagios-plugins is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nagios-plugins package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nagios-plugins *
You will get with nagios-plugins package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | nagios-plugins |
| Version | 1.5-3ubuntu1 |
| Description | Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems (metapackage) |
| Sub Section | Net |