How To Install mosquitto on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto on CentOS 8.
What is mosquitto
Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for “machine to machine” messaging such as with low power sensors or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or micro-controllers like the Arduino.
We can use yum or dnf to install mosquitto on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mosquitto.
Install mosquitto on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mosquitto using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mosquitto
Install mosquitto on CentOS 8 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mosquitto using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mosquitto
How To Uninstall mosquitto on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mosquitto package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mosquitto
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosquitto on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.