Re: How to install check_postgres on CentOS 8?

Hi Rainer,

I'd suggest that your perl package is the most recent. Just a wild guess, though. But what I'd suggest more is that you download the source archive and compile the whole package yourself for your target platform.

This is what I always do. I never install a precompiled rpm. This way, I make sure that the resulting installation works on my system. It's actually pretty easy to do and takes only 3-4 minutes to compile everything. It's not like you'd have to wait hours for the build to finish.

Cheers,
Paul

> On 26. Feb, 2020, at 15:11, rainer(at)ultra-secure(dot)de wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install the check_postgres RPM from the official postgresql.org repository onto CentOS 8.1
>
> It says:
>
> Error:
> Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
> - nothing provides perl-DateTime-Format-DateParse needed by check_postgres-2.25.0-1.rhel8.noarch
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)
>
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but how was this package built anyway?
>
> What do I have to do to install that package?
>
>
> Rainer
>
>