I usually stick with Fedora/RedHat and CentOS flavors of Linux. Recently though, I needed to monitor a new Ubuntu test server via Nagios NRPE. The sources I was using to build and install just did not play nice on first pass. So I figured for the one off, I would try the easy way.
apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server
Of course it did not install things into the paths I am used to. So my C&P config file did not work and I had to find where things got dropped.
NRPE Config file: /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
Nagios Plugins: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/
Init Script: /etc/init.d/nagios-nrpe-server
Remind me why people like Ubuntu over other flavors for a server OS again?
Oh, and you'll probably also need:
apt-get install libssl-dev