How To Install libmosquitto-dev on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmosquitto-dev
on Debian 11.
What is libmosquitto-dev
libmosquitto-dev is:
This is the header and man page for the libmosquitto1 C library, which is a library for implementing MQTT version 5.0/3.1.1/3.1 clients. This package is needed to do development with libmosquitto1.
There are three methods to install libmosquitto-dev
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmosquitto-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmosquitto-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmosquitto-dev
Install libmosquitto-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmosquitto-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmosquitto-dev
Install libmosquitto-dev Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libmosquitto-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmosquitto-dev
How To Uninstall libmosquitto-dev on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libmosquitto-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmosquitto-dev
Uninstall libmosquitto-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmosquitto-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmosquitto-dev
Remove libmosquitto-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmosquitto-dev
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmosquitto-dev
Remove libmosquitto-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmosquitto-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmosquitto-dev
Dependencies
libmosquitto-dev have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmosquitto-dev
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.