nagios-plugins-basic software package provides Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems, 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-basic
nagios-plugins-basic is installed in your system.
Make ensure the nagios-plugins-basic package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep nagios-plugins-basic *
You will get with nagios-plugins-basic package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Network |
| Package | nagios-plugins-basic |
| Version | 1.5-3ubuntu1 |
| Description | Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems |
| Sub Section | Net |