Monit 4.9 on Ubuntu Dapper
The version of Monit in the Dapper repositories is old. Installing version 4.9 of monit makes sense to me, so that is what I did.
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev build-essential bison flex
wget http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/dist/monit-4.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf monit-4.9.tar.gz
cd monit-4.9/
./configure && make && make install
vi /etc/monitrc
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